Killed by obamacare.
Some sad dark irony here.
RIP.
Star Trek - American Pie - Don McLean - Uhura
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My wife and I had to use GRMC a few times while we lived in Silver City. Didn’t seem like such a bad hospital compared to some we’ve seen, but I guess malpractice can happen anywhere.
What is there to even sue about? She was near 90 y/o, she had been ill for a long time. She also had dementia.
This is one of her sons looking for a BIG PAYDAY, just because this lady was a famous actress on a very popular TV show.
$13. Million for ‘malpractice’ is ridiculous.
I hope the health management service countersues.
Since the law suits do not involve racial discrimination, I will speculate that ALL the people who treated or examined Nichols were non-white.
Didn’t she also have a relative involved in the Heavens gate cult? I think she did. If you can believe it, their website is still up almost 30 years later.....
Absurd verdict.
“”Hacsi said $400,000 is the maximum award the family can collect under the state’s Tort Claims Act, which regulates hospitals owned by governmental agencies. Because Gila Regional Medical Center is owned by Grant County, the hospital falls under the law, she said.
If the jury award is $13Mil, and the family only gets $400,000, where does the other $12.6mil go?
They may have called it heart failure, but at the age of 89 wasn’t it more a case of TRO (time ran out).
89 was a pretty darn good run... And after all... Not everybody can be Captain Kirk still going at 95. George Takei is currently 89... I guess we’re still waiting to see who will win in the last in the ‘Last of the original Star Trek actors still standing’ category.
Maybe we shouldn’t get old? Too many people I know died, or on the way now, due to negligence and mistakes of medical people, just because they are considered older and “lived a full life” so their complaints/symptoms aren’t taken seriously.
“She was having a heart attack that was missed.”
A simple blood test would have confirmed/ruled out a heart attack. Negligence.
“The suit alleged that the hospital sent Nichols home to an assisted living center, where she died hours later”
I told you I was sick!
Malpractice lawsuits over the death of an 89 year old person used to be uncommon.