A doctor sues his own hospital

This must put him in an awkward position:

According to the lawsuit, Patty Phillips went to the hospital’s emergency room March 19 with extreme abdominal pain. Her husband said he was certain it indicated a serious intestinal problem that required immediate surgery.

Instead, he asserted in the lawsuit, she spent hours in a bed without standard monitoring machines in a storage area outside the hospital’s radiology unit before she died. An autopsy revealed she had 20 inches of damaged intestine.

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