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Maine Jury Awards $8 Million for Hospital, Midwife Malpractice
East News • October 29, 2007
A jury in Auburn, Maine last week awarded nearly $8 million to a brain-damaged 5-year-old boy and his mother in their medical malpractice lawsuit against a Lewiston hospital and one of its ...
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| Subject | Posted By | Posted On |
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| Medical care for the poor | A. Sister | Oct 30, 2007, 8:05 am |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Babies | Ohioan | Oct 30, 2007, 7:42 am |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Babies | lastbat | Oct 29, 2007, 4:10 pm |
| RE: Babies | Ric | Oct 29, 2007, 3:39 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: Babies | Sandra | Oct 29, 2007, 3:26 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Babies | Ohioan | Oct 29, 2007, 3:17 pm |
| RE: RE: Babies | lastbat | Oct 29, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| RE: Babies | Jack | Oct 29, 2007, 9:49 am |
| Babies | Sandra | Oct 29, 2007, 8:06 am |
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: Babies
the pltf. was 16 at the time and probablyw without health insurance. Did she receive proper pre-natal care? If not could that have contributed to the bad outcome? There is the possibility/probablity that the hospital did everything correctly but a bad outcome resulted. Childbirth isn't 100% without "normal" problems. Did the girl get to the hospital "in distress". Did that contribute? If she was uninsured, maybe she only received the basic care prescribed. That's unfortunate but it's reality in the medical world. Depending on how severely brain damaged the child is, the verdict money may not improve the quality of life, but simply go to "maintenance". Difficult problem; no good solutions. Society's response is usually "somebody has to pay".