Surgery Without Consent Results in $19 Million Lawsuit
Posted on May 3, 2010 3:40pm PDT
A civil lawsuit for $19 million has been filed after a six-month-old boy was left with brain damage after a surgery that the father claims he never consented to. The boy was in the hospital when the father was told that his son needed a surgery, but he refused to consent. The doctors reportedly operated on the boy the next day. The hospital reports that the man verbally consented.
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