A Miami woman was left with severe brain damage and in need of around-the-clock care after a terminally ill anesthesiologist gave her a “huge dose” of fentanyl during what her husband’s lawsuit claims was “unnecessary” dental surgery.

Maria Lugo Querales narrowly escaped death on May 10, 2022, when her heart stopped beating and she could not breathe, after Dr. Jerry Teague allegedly administered to her excessive amounts of anesthesia drugs without intubating her first, according to the civil medical malpractice complaint filed by the patient’s husband, Luis Espana.

Lugo had traveled to the dental practice Nunnally, Freeman and Owens, in Marble Falls, Texas, to undergo a procedure on “alleged ‘cavitations’ and the extraction of an asymptomatic root canal-treated tooth,” the lawsuit alleges.

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