NBC: Utah woman bled to death into a garbage can during botched heart surgery, lawsuit says
Utah resident Donnamay Brockbank, 62, died following open-heart surgery when doctors neglected to close a tube and all of her blood drained into a garbage can, according to a lawsuit her family filed against the surgeons. The lawsuit, filed this month in the Third Judicial District Court in Salt Lake City, states that Brockbank died at St. Mark’s Hospital in Millcreek, Utah, on July 11, 2018. She had undergone surgery to remove a heart device that was causing an allergic reaction. RELATED STORY: Medical murder? Massachusetts woman medically kidnapped from her home dies after being denied medical intervention Her...
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