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A Florida plastic surgeon is under investigation after his wife died while he was giving her “several” procedures — allegedly while overmedicated on a drug only being used because he ran out of his usual one.

Mom of three Hillary Brown, 33, seized and went into cardiac arrest as her husband, Dr. Ben Brown, 40, was operating on her Nov. 21 at his Restore Plastic Surgery in Gulf Breeze, USA Today reported.

She spent a week in a coma before her family decided to take her off life support because she had suffered extensive brain damage due to lack of oxygen, according to the outlet. Her organs were donated.

A 911 call indicated a female patient was in cardiac arrest after possibly being “overmedicated,” the Pensacola News Journal reported, citing the call notes.

“Hillary Brown was in the process of several surgical procedures when she experienced several seizures and then went into cardiac arrest,” the statement added, without elaborating on exactly what surgeries she was getting at the time.

Brown told his wife’s parents, Marty and Dixie Ellington, that he had run out of the medication he usually used so had put his wife under on a different one, they told USA Today.

“We want answers,” Marty Ellington said, while also questioning why their son-in-law did not have more staff and emergency equipment at hand.

“We haven’t been given answers.” If it’s a mistake, it was a mistake, but it doesn’t bring my daughter back,” the grieving father said.

“I don’t want his money. I don’t want anything. All I want is an answer because I think that we owe that to my daughter.”

The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit is now investigating the death, the reports said.

The office “frequently (conducts) death investigations when the death was unexpected or the death occurs under unusual circumstances,” spokesperson Jillian Durkin said in a statement to USA Today.

The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit is now investigating the death, the reports said.

“The cause and manner of death is pending the receipt of the autopsy protocol from the District One medical examiner’s office,” she said.

“The autopsy protocol typically takes several months at it is usually is dependent on extensive laboratory and toxicology tests as well as the information gathered by our Major Crimes detectives,” Durkin added.

Brown wrote about his wife on Nov. 24, when she was in a coma.

“We need prayers for a miracle. Hillary had a cardiac arrest on Tuesday afternoon,” he wrote in a social media post cited by the outlet.

“We called 911 and started CPR. Her heart came back but her brain is not doing well,” he added. “Hillary Ellington Brown you are my soulmate, my world, my everything. Please come back. Please!”

His wife, who had three young children from a previous marriage and also worked at the clinic, had been married to Brown — who has two sons — for about two years, the Journal reported.

Their relationship was sometimes “volatile,” Marty told the outlet, adding that she mostly enjoyed their life together and having him perform cosmetic work on her.