[DOWNLOAD] "Cleland V. Bronson Health Care Group Inc." by United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Cleland V. Bronson Health Care Group Inc.
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 24, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
Description
The Clelands took their 15-year-old son to the Bronson Methodist Hospital emergency room in Kalamazoo, Michigan, complaining of cramps and vomiting. He was examined by a doctor of the defendant Bronson Health Care Group, who diagnosed influenza and, four hours later, discharged the patient. Unfortunately, this diagnosis was incorrect. Young Cleland was actually suffering from intussusception, where a part of the intestine telescopes within itself. Less than 24 hours later, he suffered cardiac arrest and died. Instead of limiting themselves to the perhaps expected medical malpractice action, the parents of the deceased creatively also looked to a 1986 Congressional enactment, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, ("the Act") 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd. The Act imposes on hospitals such as this one the following duties:
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