The York Daily Record
Jury: $10.7M for NYC woman in wait for brain scan
A jury has awarded nearly $11 million to a woman who became partially paralyzed after waiting two hours for a hospital brain scan.
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Totally and completely excessive. Look at her age and health. This is incredible that verdict passed. Although the hospital was negligent, there should be a significantly less award.
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No, we don't need tort reform.
I'm sure it was the brain scan delay, and not the SKULL FRACTURE that caused the paralysis. |
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1 The only way these places learn to fix problems is by loosing big cases like this. The problem is, they will raise the rates to pay for it... because God Forbid they pay their people what they are worth... in other words, nobody is worth billions... |
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1 the government has nothing to do with how ER's are run.... |
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yes, I was kidding...
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JUST GOES TO SHOW ILLEGALS COME FIRST BEFORE YOU US CITIZENS.
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1 We ought to be suing the open borders lobby! BTW, what is the immigration status of the plaintiff? |
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“Rejecting the Status Quo ” Joined: Jul 3, 2008 Comments: 393 LCNM ISP: Redmond, WA |
How do you know she was an illegal alien? |
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1 it's ok Y.... if you really are in Texas, I have great faith in that state to round you up sometime real soon... how does it feel to have to look over your shoulder all the time? |
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Yeah but if it was one of you that this had happened to and then somebody told you that you were not allowed to sue because of tort reform then how would you feel?
And the government has way too much power over hospitals. |
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1 Captain? More like the private in the Confederacy of Dunces. She suffered a fall, and fractured he skull. She needed a brains can in order for the hospital to determine the proper course of action for her treatment. She did not get speedy care - which is critical in situations where brain injury is possible. That led to her current incapacitated state. The hospital mismanaged her care, and they should have to own up to that negligence and pay a penalty. That woman's quality of life is forever compromised, and her expenses just went up astronomically. The story does not give us the details about her physical condition before she fell - maybe she was spry, living on her own, doing her own shopping, visiting folks, watching grandkids - being a completely functioning member of society. She isn't now. And it is possible that could have been avoided if she had received proper care from the start. |
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We don't know if the government does have "way too much power over hospitals" but it certainly has way too LITTLE power over its borders. |
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It's also possible that ER care would be as prompt as it used to be before the illegal alien invasion if we enforced our immigration laws. Again -- what is the immigration status of the claimant? |
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1 What does that have to do with the hospital's negligence? |
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1 Hey Pat- does the patients name make you suspicious? You are really paranoid, which leads me to believe that you are one of the white supremacist bigots within NUMBERSUSA. I'll bet you can post on every single board and spin it to show that there is an "illegal alien invasion" everywhere, neverending. |
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As you know, we just had this conversation in another forum. This is NumbersUSA: http://www.numbersusa.com/content/ When massive immigration is causing all kinds of problems, many of us will say so, whether you give us permission to or not. Your dopey race card is a poor excuse for honestly confronting the implications of massive unending unsustainable immigration. That's why many Americans understandbly wonder if the media is again covering up immigration status as it relates to another huge public expenditure. I didn't say this claimant is definitely an illegal because I don't know. So I asked. You'll notice nobody's denying it. Maybe if our corporate pro-open borders cheap labor media would do its job, we wouldn't have to ask. |
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1 Are you serious? You can't understand how a hospital staff being overwhelmed by a huge caseload wouldn't increase the occurrence of "negligence"?? |
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