A second Oregon woman has accused Kaiser Permanente and Dr. Colin Mizuo of negligence and medical malpractice for injecting her with rubbing alcohol instead of anesthesia before a procedure.
Former patient Judith Young says in the complaint filed Monday that she cried, screamed and told the podiatrist she was in “terrible pain” after he injected her while removing an ingrown toenail in the town of Hillsboro on Jan. 22.
Her lawsuit asks the state circuit court to award her $23 million in damages.
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The complaint comes after an earlier lawsuit accused the same Kaiser Permanente doctor of doing the same thing to another female patient.
In that June lawsuit, Sarah Blackman accused Dr. Mizuo of injecting her with rubbing alcohol while removing two ingrown toenails a week after Ms. Young’s procedure.
She and her husband, Jason Fleskes, have asked Dr. Mizuo and Kaiser Permanente for $13 million in damages. Their lawsuit accuses the doctor of telling her to “just get over it” after she screamed at him not to pull the second toenail.
Doctors typically give patients an injection of lidocaine or a similar local anesthetic before removing ingrown toenails. Both lawsuits used the word “torture” to describe what the women experienced without the anesthetic.
Dr. Mizuo has not publicly commented on the lawsuit or responded to requests for comment, according to multiple news outlets.
Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare networks in the country, declined to comment on the first lawsuit.
The Oakland, California-based system told news outlets after the second lawsuit that patient safety is its highest priority and that it reviews patient care.
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