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John Ritter died from a ruptured thoracic aneurysm. His family sued the emergency physicians for allegedly failing to treat him quickly enough. Now another celebrity is suing emergency physicians. James Woods, brother of deceased Michael J. Woods, is suing a hospital and its emergency physicians for failing to treat Mr. Woods quickly enough. Michael Woods went to [...]
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
By John Hill WARWICK, R.I. --- The nurse in charge of coordinating the nursing staff at Kent Hospital the evening Michael J. Woods died there testified in Kent County Superior Court Monday afternoon that she was unaware of Woods' condition as he lay on a gurney parked in a hallway near her work station, until Woods was stricken with a fatal heart attack that killed him. Testifying in the Woods' family's...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Testimony is continuing in James Woods' lawsuit against Kent Hospital, and the actor could take the stand this week to talk about his brother's death.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A witness says the late brother of the actor James Woods was not seen by a doctor until an hour after he came to the Kent Hospital emergency room complaining of a sore throat.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By Thomas J. Morgan By John Hill Journal Staff Writer WARWICK, R.I. -- A lawyer for Kent Hospital continued his cross examination Thursday morning of an expert witness hired by the family of Michael Woods, challenging the doctor's opinion that Kent Hospital did not meet the professional standard of care when it treated Woods the day he died, July 26, 2006. Lawyer David Carroll used his questioning...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By News staff By John Hill Journal Staff Writer WARWICK, R.I. -- A doctor and hospital administrator who has run emergency medical departments in three states testified Wednesday morning that Kent Hospital's emergency room department did not meet the profession's expected standard of care when they treated Michael J. Woods for a fatal heart condition in 2006. Dr. John Schriver, chief of emergency medicine...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Testimony is continuing in a lawsuit over the death of actor James Woods' brother at a hospital in Rhode Island.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
By Thomas J. Morgan By John Hill Journal Staff Writer WARWICK, R.I. -- The doctor who treated Michael Woods on July 26, 2006, the day he died in the Kent Hospital emergency room, testified Tuesday morning about the treatment Woods received at the hospital that day. Dr. Kelli A. Naylor testified that when she saw him, Woods showed symptoms that could have been caused by several life-threatening conditions,...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
By News staff These are stories The Providence Journal is watching today. Travis Garcia, 18, of Coventry, is scheduled for arraignment Monday for murder in the strangling death of Jeannine Garcia, 32, of Providence. Garcia, who is not related to the victim, was arrested last Sunday in Clinton, Conn., after he crashed her car while trying to elude the police, who were chasing him for speeding. After...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A segment from an English TV documentary about director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone’s collaboration on “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly“ and “Once Upon a Time in the West” and more good stuff, including Claudia Cardinale and food, and Rudy Giuliani-loving Republican actor James Woods’ apparent semi-agreement with the European Marxist interpretation...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By News staff By W. Zachary Malinowski Journal staff writer WARWICK, R.I. -- A registered nurse testified Friday that Michael Woods was resistant to receiving medication at Kent Hospital about two hours before he suffered a fatal heart attack on July 26, 2006. Jessica Parker, a veteran nurse at Kent, South County and Newport Hospitals, said she was working in the emergency room that night when another...
Signaleer (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
"In Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, a "good" Lex Luthor (Chris Noth) arrives from an alternate universe to recruit the Justice League to help save his Earth from the Crime Syndicate, a gang of villainous characters with virtually identical super powers to the Justice League. What ensues is the ultimate battle of good versus evil in a war that threatens both planets and, through...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
By Donita Naylor By John Hill Journal staff writer WARWICK, R.I. -- Testimony resumed Thursday morning with a doctor and nurse being questioned about their interaction with Michael J. Woods on the day he died at Kent Hospital. Woods died of a blocked coronary artery in the emergency room on July 26, 2006 . His brother, actor James Woods, is suing Kent Hospital in Superior Court for negligence on behalf...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
By John Hill This is a story The Providence Journal is watching today WARWICK, R.I. -- Testimony was scheduled to resume this morning in the actor James Woods' Superior Court lawsuit claiming his brother Michael died in July 2006 because of negligence on the part of Kent Hospital. Michael J. Woods, 49, local businessman, two-time mayoral candidate and sometime actor who had appeared in small parts...
Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Lawyers told jurors that a hospital did not do enough to care for the brother of James Woods when he went to the emergency room complaining of a sore throat and vomiting in 2006. The trial comes after the filed wrongful death lawsuit . The victim died from heart disease at the hospital after going into cardiac arrest on a gurney at the age of 49. The attorney stated that the actor’s brother...
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