The doctor is being accused of intubating and sending an end-stage Alzheimer’s patient to the hospital. Of course, the description of the incident from the plaintiff’s lawyer highlights the “brutality” of these actions:
When nurses were unable to find Neumann’s pulse after she suffered yet another seizure Oct. 17, 1995, a breathing tube was shoved down her throat, she was poked with needles and other measures were taken en route to Columbia Hospital, Scheible testified earlier. It turned what would have been a gentle death into a nightmare, Scheible says. Neumann died six days later.
