A doctor who was fired from Cook County Hospital has fired backwith a federal lawsuit that accuses hospital officials of condoningnegligent practices that resulted in death and injury to numerouspatients.
The 102-page complaint from Dr. Thomas Draghi paints a scarypicture of a hospital in which brain surgery was performed on thewrong patient, an otherwise-healthy asthma patient was rendered braindead by medical foulups and a newborn baby was killed by a hot airblast from a respirator that was improperly set.
Draghi contends patients in the hospital's Medical IntensiveCare Unit, where he was assigned, were at particular risk because ofthe use of defective …
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