HealthCare Notes

4/2/15

Doctor Wins State Senate Just To Overturn Law Inspired By His Dead Patient

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/03/30/doctor-wins-state-senate-just-to-overturn-law-inspired-by-his-dead-patient/
"Rose Church, a 36-year-old registered nurse from Haleyville, gave birth to a healthy baby girl on December 1, 1998. After 36 hours she was released from the hospital only to return around 36 hours later due to sessile bleeding that required four units of blood. She was again discharged only to die approximately 36 hours later of a heart attack, according to the report. Her autopsy revealed that Church had placental tissue still inside her womb, 11 days after she delivered her daughter Logan Rose.
Stutts was her OB/GYN and was named in the wrongful death suit filed by her husband Gene Church. The suit states, among other things, that Rose Church was released from the hospital despite the fact that she “was suffering from placenta accreta and continued to display persistent tachycardia"."