By Morphine
05/07/2010
Victorino Noval
By Septic Infection untreated
August
3rd 1998
John
Kline
By Potassium
By refusing to notify a patient of a diagnosis
July
24, 2003
The
Matthew Salas Story
Feb. 15, 2005
Robyn Libitsky
March 24, 2005
Letter to Representative Doolittle
By openly killing a patient - pulling the plug
1981
Clarence
Herbert
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Hector
Noval sued
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and affiliates, a doctor and two social
workers on behalf of his father, Victorino Noval, who died in May 2010
after a "terminal extubation." Noval says his father had been
involuntarily admitted to Kaiser's intensive care unit for pneumonia on
April 28, 2010, while suffering from early-stage of Parkinson's and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
In 1981, Robert Nejdl and Neil
Barber, two
Los Angeles physicians, were charged with murder for taking a
severely brain- damaged
comatose patient off a
respirator and
stopping intravenous feeding. On March 9, 1983, Municipal Court
Judge Brian
Crahan dismissed the
charges at a preliminary
hearing sought by the doctors' attorneys, holding that there
was no evidence
of malicious intent, and hence no evidence to sustain murder
charges. However,
he warned that this dismissal did not rule out criminal charges in
other cases. Judge
Crahan's dismissal suggested that a doctor acting under the
reasonable belief that
a patient is in a condition of irreversible coma may, with the consent
of the patient's
family, remove the patient from all life-support systems without
fear of criminal
charges. However, the prosecution appealed, and on May 5 Superior
Court Judge
Robert A. Wenke reinstated the murder charges. Unless the
defense is successful
in its appeal (a three-judge panel heard the arguments on September
12), the case
will now go to trial in Superior Court.
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