A Tennessee woman won a $3.45 million lawsuit after she was left with a “completely unnecessary” and “permanent” disfigurement from surgery.
Kellianne Goodnight said doctors at the Chattanooga Skin and Cancer Clinic on Shallowford Road in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 2017 removed several layers of her skin just above the bridge of her nose while performing a Mohr’s surgery. The doctors allegedly told her the layers were filled with cancer cells, but they were not.
In the Mohr’s surgery, the doctors would remove a layer of tissue at the crease of Goodnight’s nose and face and examine it microscopically to figure out if there were cancer cells, according to the lawsuit, WZTV reported.
If cancer cells are found, the doctors would remove another layer of tissue and examine it, and repeat this process until they found a layer that did not have cancer cells.
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A Tennessee woman won a $3.45 million lawsuit…