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Article Excerpt
ONE OF THE MOST EGREGIOUS ERRORS A PHYSICIAN CAN MAKE IS PATIENT ABANDONMENT. In this unusual Connecticut case a patient's obstetrician literally "walked out" on his patient during her second stage of labor. Further, and equally egregious, was the fact that he was "nowhere to be found" after he walked out of the delivery room leaving others to finish his work. Unfortunately, his patient gave birth to a ser
DR. THOMAS MCNAMEE, AN OBSTETRICIAN WORKING WITH ASSOCIATED WOMEN'S HEALTH SPECIALISTS, P. C. (ASSOCIATED), ATTENDED LESLIE APONTE DURING HER PREGNANCY BEGINNING IN NOVEMBER, 1994, THROUGH MAY, 1995, AND DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF LABOR ON MAY 24, 1995 AT WATERBURY HOSPITAL. Dr. McNamee left the patient during the second stage of her labor and thereafter was "unavailable." Dr. Ian Cohen, another...
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