AN INQUEST will begin today into the death of woman following surgery in Oxford.
Michelle Ginsburg-Smith died in February aged 50, seven months after suffering serious brain damage after a thyroid removal operation.
Surgery took place at the Churchill Hospital, and the next day she suffered hypoxia and a cardiac arrest due to a blood vessel leak blocking her airway.
From then Mrs Ginsburg-Smith, who lived in Oxford with her husband Mark Ginsburg, had to be tube-fed and lost her quality of life.
A High Court judge gave clinicians permission to switch off her life support, in agreement with her loved ones.
A two-day inquest will take place at Oxford Coroner's Court.
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