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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Doctors playing ‘music bingo’ missed that their patient had stopped breathing during routine surgery, suit says

Bart Writer and his wife Chris before he died in 2023 after undergoing cataract surgery - (KUSA)

A settled lawsuit alleges two doctors were distracted by playing a game of “music bingo” during a routine eye surgery and failed to notice that their patient had stopped breathing – an oversight that proved fatal.

Bart Writer, 56, died shortly after undergoing cataract surgery at InSight Surgery Center in Lone Tree, Colorado, on February 3, 2023.

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