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"The staff did a idiotic thing but it is hardly worth a several million $ payout."

Please analyze that. If it was idiotic, how much is the loss of a young husband and new dad worth? In lost earnings and just in not having a dad the rest of your life. BTW I'm not saying the hospital is liable for that, but if they were ....

The hospital in a perfect world would have enough staff. But guess what, most hospitals and clinics run on skeleton staffs.

I said idiotic due to the fact hospitals should know sharks sense blood and this was definitely a blunder. But when you are pushing a 12 hr shift and having to do an epidural before the patient goes full effaced and crossing your fingers help can arrive you are bond to do whatever it takes. Even asking for help from non medical personnel.

Should that warrant a million $ payout? If the one doing the epidural clocked the guy with a sledgehammer yes, but asking for help, hell no.

To close, in a perfect world the family should get $0. Unfortunately we live in a world filled with lawyers and juries raised on Oprah.