The I-TEAM on Thursday spoke with attorneys about whether charges could be brought against the doctor or the hospital.
Following hundreds of medical malpractice lawsuits filed against a former orthopedic surgeon at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside, the I-TEAM on Thursday spoke with attorneys about whether charges could be brought against the doctor or the hospital.at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside, the I-TEAM on Thursday spoke with attorneys about whether charges could be brought against the doctor or the hospital.
In the suits, plaintiffs claim the doctor operated on patients after he’d been diagnosed with a progressive neurological condition that caused him to slur his speech and lose his balance. The suits allege the hospital knew and still allowed him to perform surgeries. The suits allege patients observed Dr. Heekin was impaired from 2016 to 2020 and accuse him of performing surgeries where he severed tendons and nerves and caused fractures.Lawsuits allege Ascension St. Vincent’s knew doctor wasn’t fit to operate, but allowed him to perform surgeriesIn one case, it’s alleged a patient died after Heekin caused her femur to crack during a hip replacement, which caused the surgery to last longer.
“I don’t think anything could be brought against him that show a criminal intent on his part, at least nothing that I’ve seen in the lawsuits that I’ve read,” Reep said.“To get beyond into the exclusion of a reasonable doubt that someone purposely caused the injury to somebody else, I think, would be a very difficult burden to carry,” Reep added.
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