A Nashville-area woman, Linda Gilbert, sues Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown alleging that the wrong medication was injected during knee surgery, leaving her unable to walk. The lawsuit seeks damages and frames the incident as a serious complication following the procedure.
According to reporting from different outlets, Gilbert says hospital staff injected potassium phosphate rather than the local anesthetic mepivacaine. Fox News describes the alleged result as incomplete paraplegia, while the New York Post emphasizes the scale of the claim and the amount being sought. Both accounts present the dispute as a medical negligence claim rather than a settled finding.
No source provided here confirms whether the hospital accepts responsibility or whether the case has progressed in court, beyond the filing and allegations described in the coverage.
