R.I. Heart Patient Wins $2 Million Malpractice Award

June 11, 2008

  • June 11, 2008 at 3:23 am
    wudchuck says:
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    said he got a low amount of oxygen? did he have an operation that was recorded showing that recieved low levels of O2? is it possible that some of the memory loss was due to a fall or something other than the surgery? afterall, some of us as we get older, lose memory anyways.

    this ought to be interesting. i can see maybe they may have left a stethescope in him or took out the wrong part. it was open heart surgery, did the patient understand all the possible complications? isn’t he still happy to be alive?

    there’s gotta be something that happened..

  • June 12, 2008 at 2:33 am
    Calif Ex Pat says:
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    Typical Rhode Island ‘don’t confuse me with the facts’ jury — the economy in that benighted area is so depressed all the jurors are looking to find a way (any way)to inject money into the States failed economy.

    As to the merits, the intraoperative anesthesia record is key and records O2 sats a very narrow intervals – his claim must have been he is ‘special’ and normal )2 sats weren’t enough for him.

    On the other hand, if he was a candidate for open heart, he was chronically hypoxic for months or even years prior to the opn as the restricted blood flow occasioning the procedure would have seen to it – or maybe he was saying that he got ‘too much’ based on his accommodation to chronic low O2 sats – either way, the ‘I can’t recall’ claims are easy to make/fake and impossible to empirically disprove as all testing relies on the patients reporting



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