No. 20-6378

Brenda L. White v. Wishard Hospital

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-11-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: breach-of-trust equipment-failure medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights patient-safety physical-therapy standard-of-care
Key Terms:
Securities
Latest Conference: 2021-01-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a medical professional can be held liable for injuring a patient and abandoning them

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. {sit lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away? ; 2. Should a medical professional be held accountable for unreasonable treatment? 3. What should the remedy be when a patient is abused and injured? 4. Is there a standard of care instituted for medical professionals? 5. How can a physical therapy treatment that caused damage be recompensed? 6. Should physical therapy, and therapist, and equipment violate trust by not returning to patient in time, or equipment not automatically releasing patient, or the buzzer not sounding because time is over? 7. Should physical therapy or equipment or staff defy the safety of the patient by not following the instructions for the traction machine or the buzzer and timer? 8. Should the therapist/hospital be held accountable for violating, torturing and abusing a patient and the trust of that patient by injuring the patient by leaving me on the traction machine resulting permanent damage to my back/spine, and, without instructions in case buzzer doesn’t , work or no one comes in time? | , 9. 1s it lawful for therapist/hospital to violate a patient’s trust while being hoisted up and pulled by a machine? ,

Docket Entries

2021-01-11
Petition DENIED.
2020-12-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2020-12-11
Waiver of right of respondent Wishard Hospital to respond filed.
2020-10-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 21, 2020)

Attorneys

Brenda L. White
Brenda L. White — Petitioner
Brenda L. White — Petitioner
Wishard Hospital
Bryan H. BabbBose McKinney & Evans LLP, Respondent
Bryan H. BabbBose McKinney & Evans LLP, Respondent