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  • Woman catches fire during hemorrhoid operation

    12/13/2007 6:46:39 PM PST · by pa_dweller · 52 replies · 106+ views
    The Local - Sweden's news in English ^ | 12 Dec 07 | Paul O'Mahony
    Sweden's welfare board has criticized a hospital in Stockholm after a 40-year-old woman caught fire during a hemorrhoid operation, Aftonbladet reports. While the woman's piles were successfully removed by doctors at Ersta Hospital, she ended up leaving the surgery in September with a partially burned backside. In addition to the hemorrhoids, the woman was also in hospital to have a lump removed with the aid of electrosurgery. The accident took place after a nurse had cleaned the woman's skin with an antiseptic solution. With some of the highly flammable liquid having trickled under the women's body, the patient caught fire...