Woman Dropped By Doctors Dies

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Woman Dies After Being 'Dropped' on Floor Following Surgery (msn.com)
Jeannette Shields, 70, broke her hip while she was at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, North West England, where she was being treated for gall stones, BBC News reported. While she was in the hospital she buzzed for help to go to the restroom, but went by herself when she got no answer, and she fell and broke her hip after she got dizzy, her husband, John Shields, told the broadcaster. She then had surgery to fix her broken hip, and the hospital told her husband that the procedure had gone to plan but "unfortunately they dropped her off the operating
after the surgery." John Shields, 78, said: "She had a great big bump on the back of her head and she just deteriorated and then she just passed away, just died... I'm really shocked."
 

Well, obviously, they screwed up when transferring her from the operating table to the gurney. If they followed the correct procedure this might not have accrued. It's probably why this is such a rare event. People are not machines that never break down, or get distracted. And as much as we try to prevent it, stuff happens.
 

This should be an interesting one when the lawyers try to determine who was at fault for her death. Was it the woman for getting out of the bed on her own and falling, or the hospital folks for dropping her.
 
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