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: Bodily Injury BlogHospital Fails to Get Consent, Lawsuit Claims
By Edward Bills
A California man has filed a $19 million lawsuit against the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, claiming he never consented to surgery on his six-month-old son that left the boy with permanent brain damage. When doctors called Eduardo Rivas to tell him his son needed surgery, he declined to consent, but the surgery performed despite his objections, the LA Times reports. Officials claimed Rivas gave his verbal consent, but state investigators found no hospital documents the proved this claim. Hospital officials also failed to provide Rivas with a Spanish interpreter, which violates hospital policy.
Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).
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