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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Hospital accused of posing patient to look alive for her family two hours after she died in routine surgery

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Doctors at a hospital in Ohio have been accused of propping up a dead patient to make her appear alive, even though she had died hours earlier during a routine surgery, according to a lawsuit.

The patient was an unidentified 65-year-old woman who had been in "good health" before she underwent surgery at Adena Health System in Chillicothe, Ohio, according to the Scioto Valley Guardian.

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