10-07-2008, 11:16 AM
I was on a Jury on Oahu for a Malpractice suit where a patient committed suicide in a hospital.
The doctor in charge of her care was on trial and the family was seaking $500,000 for each of two of the patients children that lost their mother.
We the jury found the Doctor Innocent.
Still to this day, I think about how that doctor was slammed in the Court Room by that families doctor, although we the jury found none of it to be true.
Now you folks are probably wondering who this doctor maybe???
Dr. Ben Young... now you folks are saying who is that?
Well he was the Doctor on Board the Hokuleia when Eddie Aikau (EDDIE WOULD GO!) Died trying to save the crew of the boat.
He was, at the time of the trial, the Director of Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence and was one of the first licensed doctors in the State of Hawaii with Hawaiian Blood in him.
Of course, we as jurors didn't find this out until we were sitting there as jurors.
I sat there in that court room for 8 hours a day for 10 days listening to this doctor getting slammed about the way the Hospital ran things.
I later found out after the trial and after we found the doctor innocent, that the family had already settled out of court with the Hospital and was now just trying to get money from the doctor that was on hand.
The case surrounded a lady bashing her head into a concrete type drawer they had in her room and the lawyers were insistent that this lady wouldn't have killed herself had Dr. Young been doing his job.
Well we as a jury came to the conclusion that the ladies death had nothing to do with Dr. Young.
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The doctor in charge of her care was on trial and the family was seaking $500,000 for each of two of the patients children that lost their mother.
We the jury found the Doctor Innocent.
Still to this day, I think about how that doctor was slammed in the Court Room by that families doctor, although we the jury found none of it to be true.
Now you folks are probably wondering who this doctor maybe???
Dr. Ben Young... now you folks are saying who is that?
Well he was the Doctor on Board the Hokuleia when Eddie Aikau (EDDIE WOULD GO!) Died trying to save the crew of the boat.
He was, at the time of the trial, the Director of Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence and was one of the first licensed doctors in the State of Hawaii with Hawaiian Blood in him.
Of course, we as jurors didn't find this out until we were sitting there as jurors.
I sat there in that court room for 8 hours a day for 10 days listening to this doctor getting slammed about the way the Hospital ran things.
I later found out after the trial and after we found the doctor innocent, that the family had already settled out of court with the Hospital and was now just trying to get money from the doctor that was on hand.
The case surrounded a lady bashing her head into a concrete type drawer they had in her room and the lawyers were insistent that this lady wouldn't have killed herself had Dr. Young been doing his job.
Well we as a jury came to the conclusion that the ladies death had nothing to do with Dr. Young.
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General Election Unofficial Poll