1975 Law Allows Olympia Medical Center
To Get Away With Negligence
On February 6, 2006, Olympia Medical Center committed negligence; medical malpractice and they are fighting with a well-armed arsenal to get away with not paying a dime to compensate the victim. The most potent weapon in that arsenal is California tort reform law passed in 1975.
These laws limit the damages for pain and suffering to $250,000.00, slash attorneys’ fess so severely that all the good lawyers are out of the business and impose prohibitive litigation costs to pay for mandatory expert witnesses.
Neither the administration nor the nursing staff of Olympia Medial Center care about whether they hurt, make lame, cripple or kill patients. This is clearly demonstrated in what happened to George Johnson on February 6, 2006.
Let me tell you what happened to George Johnson:
o Nursing Staff failed to apply pressure to prevent bleeding
after a procedure on a vein in his groin.
o Ignored George's complaints regarding discomfort for hours as he lingered bleeding…while still on blood thinning medication.
o Medical staff failed to advise his doctors about the bleeding, swelling and pain.
o He nearly died as a result of medical neglect
o He was sent home with an infected wound.
o George is now crippled due to improper care.
As a result of this, George Johnson cannot:
o Walk without a walker
o Work
o Earn a living
o Shop for groceries or anything else
o Cook
o Participate in any form of entertainment
o Participate in many activities we all take for granted.
Now Olympia Medical Center seeks to use the 1975 laws described above to avoid paying George Johnson any compensation for what they did to him. It’s not right and it could happen to you. If you want your life and your health don’t go to Olympia Medical Center.
You can visit my blog at……
http://gbjohnson.blogspot.com
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
PRESS RELEASE
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Date: Saturday, October 18, 2008
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Olympia Medical Center 5900 W. Olympic Blvd. • Los Angeles, CA 90036
Contact: Melvin R. Snell (323) 610-3324
Hospital Protest over the effects of California Medical Injury Compensation Act (MICRA) on innocent victims of hospital negligence.
A group of community activists, Reverend K.W. Tullus of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network along with activists Melvin R. Snell founder of L.A. Humanities Group Foundation and Denyse Walls, former Executive Director of the ACLU of South Carolina will stage a live protest in front of the Olympia Medical Center to draw attention to the hospital’s negligence and the California’s laws which allow them to escape making restitution to victims.
A series of tort reform laws enacted in 1975, permit hospitals to commit negligence, malpractice and be financially insulated from liability. George Johnson, a veteran residential real estate appraiser, nearly lost his life at the hand of the uncaring Olympia Medical Center nursing staff. He is crippled and unable to work because of the hospital’s actions. The hospital is expected to use the California 1975 tort reform laws to escape responsibility for its negligence.
Like the atrocity of May 9, 2007 at King Drew where Edith Rodriquez died on the emergency room floor, and where intervention by emergency room patrons who called police and other emergency personnel to help a victim ignored by hospital staff, George Johnson managed to escape death because he reached out to his sister by cell phone. But for his sister calling George’s doctor he would have died.
For further information contact:
Melvin R. Snell
L.A. Humanities Group Foundation
(323) 610-3324
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Date: Saturday, October 18, 2008
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Olympia Medical Center 5900 W. Olympic Blvd. • Los Angeles, CA 90036
Contact: Melvin R. Snell (323) 610-3324
Hospital Protest over the effects of California Medical Injury Compensation Act (MICRA) on innocent victims of hospital negligence.
A group of community activists, Reverend K.W. Tullus of Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network along with activists Melvin R. Snell founder of L.A. Humanities Group Foundation and Denyse Walls, former Executive Director of the ACLU of South Carolina will stage a live protest in front of the Olympia Medical Center to draw attention to the hospital’s negligence and the California’s laws which allow them to escape making restitution to victims.
A series of tort reform laws enacted in 1975, permit hospitals to commit negligence, malpractice and be financially insulated from liability. George Johnson, a veteran residential real estate appraiser, nearly lost his life at the hand of the uncaring Olympia Medical Center nursing staff. He is crippled and unable to work because of the hospital’s actions. The hospital is expected to use the California 1975 tort reform laws to escape responsibility for its negligence.
Like the atrocity of May 9, 2007 at King Drew where Edith Rodriquez died on the emergency room floor, and where intervention by emergency room patrons who called police and other emergency personnel to help a victim ignored by hospital staff, George Johnson managed to escape death because he reached out to his sister by cell phone. But for his sister calling George’s doctor he would have died.
For further information contact:
Melvin R. Snell
L.A. Humanities Group Foundation
(323) 610-3324
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