A 65-year-old woman caught fire during surgery at the Heartland Medical Center in Marion, Illinois and later died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Details are not forthcoming because of patient privacy laws and because hospitals don't really want people to know that you're lucky to get out alive once you've checked in.
Oxygen can build up under drapes during surgery and ignite via sparks from electrical surgical instruments. This happens approximately 600 times a year in this country.
I'm sure it can and does happen in many well respected hospitals (where news like this doesn't get out) but a hospital in Marion, Illinois? Come on, guys. You'd probably have better odds of surviving surgery at an Animal Medical Center in any major city.
Yeah, let's not mess with the wonderful health care available in the U.S. of A.
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