Wednesday, August 23, 2006
My medical phobia
Some of you long time readers and listeners are probably aware that I have a morbid fear of everything connected with medical. I am sure this is a serious defect.
You may wonder why I am such a frady-cat. The Southwest Times Record reports on a lawsuit which the doctors and hospital were too frightened to put in front of a jury. You can read it all and figure out why I am such a big old baby.
You may wonder why I am such a frady-cat. The Southwest Times Record reports on a lawsuit which the doctors and hospital were too frightened to put in front of a jury. You can read it all and figure out why I am such a big old baby.
In a lawsuit filed in Sebastian County Circuit Court, Ellen and Christopher Williams alleged that Ellen Williams was being prepared for gallbladder surgery at St. Edward Mercy Medical Center on Nov. 20, 2003, when she regained consciousness and found she was temporarily paralyzed.
Williams remained awake for about 45 minutes of surgery, able to feel and hear everything that was happening but unable to let anyone know she was conscious, according to the suit.
The suit, filed in October 2004, named Dr. Charles Little, the anesthesiologist for the surgery, and his employer, Western Arkansas Anesthesiology Associates, as defendants. It later was severed into two cases.
