An Oregon doctor stitched up a “deep wound” on the arm of an 18-year-old without removing “twigs, pine needles, and moss” that were inside of it, leading to a “deep tissue infection” that killed him, his family says in a lawsuit.
Ethan Cantrell’s family has sued the Corvallis doctor and hospital where he was treated in 2024, along with another physician and the medical group they belong to, Mary’s Peak Emergency Physicians, for medical negligence. A legal complaint obtained by Law&Crime outlined the allegations against them, including claims that Cantrell’s deadly infection was brushed off as being caused by the COVID-19 virus.
The teen was working as a logger on Aug. 15, 2024, and “cutting wood” when he sustained a large gash on his arm after falling off a log and slicing it open on a “piece of debris,” the complaint stated. He was taken to Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center…