For this week's assignment, you will be researching six famous medical malpractice cases. These cases occurred from the 1980's - as recent as 2000's, across the U.S. Below are the names of actual...

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For this week's assignment, you will be researching six famous medical malpractice cases. These cases occurred from the 1980's - as recent as 2000's, across the U.S.


Below are the names of actual patients that you will need to research:



  • Jessica Santillan

  • Sherman Sizemore

  • Bob East

  • Benjamin Houghton

  • Donald Church

  • Dana Carvey


All of the information that you will need can be found via articles that you can find via Google searches or the UNCC Library. (Hint: To make your internet search more specific, type (PATIENT NAME) & "Medical Malpractice" into your search engines.) During your research, be sure to note the location, high level details of the case (ie. what happened, what was the result), and be able to relate these details to the information that you learned this week from Chapter 10

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Jessica Santillan: A 17 years old girl went admitted to Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C i
n 2003. The teenager went into critical condition after a second heart-lung transplant (Stein, 2003). Implanted heart and lung with different blood types was the reason behind this incident, the issue took place from the surgeon's end.
Sherman Sizemore: In 2006, a patient named Sherman Sizemore becomes paralyzed after the first incision of exploratory laparotomy. The incident took place at Raleigh General Hospital, West Virginia, USA. Lack of anesthesia brings back awareness of the patient, it paralyzed the patient body and eventually led to suicide.
Bob East: The incident with Bob East took...
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