A podiatrist in Oregon is facing a second lawsuit from a person accusing him of accidentally injecting rubbing alcohol into their toes before a procedure instead of a painkiller.
According to The Oregonian, Colin Mizuo, a doctor at the Portland-area Kaiser Permanente, is named in a $23 million lawsuit filed by Judith Young, who says the alleged mishap occurred during an ingrown toenail removal. Mizuo allegedly injected rubbing alcohol into her toe instead of lidocaine.
Young claims that she tried to tell the doctor she could feel everything as he removed an ingrown nail on her big toe, but he continued with the procedure and did not reassess the painkiller. She reportedly went home and followed aftercare procedures but continued to feel burning, swelling and intense pain in her toe.
Not knowing that she had allegedly been injected with rubbing alcohol, she was diagnosed with an infection and treated with antibiotics. However, her condition got worse, and her toe began to turn black, ooze and her skin started falling off. It wasn’t until five to six weeks after the alleged mishap that doctors figured out what went wrong…