Malpractice News:
http://www.newyorkinjurycasesblog.co...nt%20Sinai.pdf
Apparently, overworked resident and lack of attending supervision, critical to case, and led to rare award of punitive damages to family.
Justice Joan Carey on 8/27/2009:
As a hospital, which is entrusted with the lives of its patients, Mt. Sinai cannot simply have an attending physician not show up for an entire weekend, and have inexperienced, and overworked, resident physicians be solely responsible for the handling of the care of these patients. Based upon the foregoing, a jury could reasonably find that Mt. Sinai participated in or authorized these failures, and find complicity on the part of Mt. Sinai.
http://www.newyorkinjurycasesblog.co...nt%20Sinai.pdf
Apparently, overworked resident and lack of attending supervision, critical to case, and led to rare award of punitive damages to family.
Justice Joan Carey on 8/27/2009:
As a hospital, which is entrusted with the lives of its patients, Mt. Sinai cannot simply have an attending physician not show up for an entire weekend, and have inexperienced, and overworked, resident physicians be solely responsible for the handling of the care of these patients. Based upon the foregoing, a jury could reasonably find that Mt. Sinai participated in or authorized these failures, and find complicity on the part of Mt. Sinai.
