This space hasn't been particularly active the last several weeks due to an administrative nightmare - my assistant's spouse got a job in another state. Imagine my suprise when she told me she was going to go with him. I now have a renewed appreciation for all that personal assistants/secretaries do. That crisis has now been solved[I hope] and I can get back into a regular posting schedule.
I have noted a number of interesting legal affairs articles in the local papers over the last several weeks including a interesting story in the May 31, 2006 Chicago Sun Times. The article discussed a Washington state doctor, Dr. Terry Phillips, who filed a medical malpractice lawsuit involving St. Joseph Medical Center, the hospital where Phillips works. Dr. Phillips, an anesthesiologist, is suing Franciscan Health System, owner of St. Joseph Medical Center, for malpractice that allegedly caued the death of his wife, Patty. Ms. Phillips had gone to the hospital in March with severe abdominal pain. Dr. Phillips felt the pain was caused by an intestinal problem that warranted immediate surgery. Unfortunately, his wife was left in a hospital bed for hours without appropriate monitoring equipment and ultimately died. An autopsy revealed that Dr. Phillips was right. His wife had 20 inches of damaged intestine. Sadly, tragic things happen at every level of the socioeconomic scale. Even doctors can be victimized by medical negligence. It is inevitable that somewhere along the line, the spouse of an Illinois physician will be the victim of bad medical management. And when that time comes, how will that doctor feel about the damages limitations that are currently the law in Illinois?
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