An Oregon doctor has been accused of using rubbing alcohol as a local anesthetic while yanking off a patient’s ingrown toenails for the second time this year.
Judith Young is now the second Portland-area woman to file a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente and the clinic in Hillsboro where she and another woman, Sarah Blackman, were allegedly injected with 70% isopropyl rubbing alcohol “in lieu of a local anesthetic.”
Young’s complaint, which was obtained by Law&Crime, involves allegations similar to those in the complaint Blackman filed over the summer. Young’s lawyers are seeking $23 million — $10 million more than Blackman sought…