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Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to
determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on
fire at a local hospital in 2003.

The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured
on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument.

The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not
the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.

The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter
sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the
hospital, and said the patient burned to deat

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