This Makes Me Sick : "I don't have it in for St. Joe's"

June 05, 2006

"I don't have it in for St. Joe's"

But Dr. Terry Phillips is suing the hospital in Tacoma, Washington—a hospital where he used to work. The anesthesiologist says hospital staff failed to perform emergency surgery to save his wife. According to the lawsuit, Patty Phillips went to the hospital's ER with extreme abdominal pain. Her husband said he was certain it indicated a serious intestinal problem that required immediate surgery. Instead, she spent hours in a bed without standard monitoring machines in a storage area outside the hospital's radiology unit before she died. An autopsy revealed she had 20 inches of damaged intestine. Read [Washington Post]

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