Was the Clinique des Cèdres, near Toulouse, responsible for the death of a patient in 2012?
“She was not treated and died of it” denounce his family. The Cedars Clinic and a doctor from this establishment appeared in court this Tuesday in Toulouse, prosecuted for manslaughter. The case dates back to August 2012. A 39-year-old mother, hospitalized at the Cornebarrieu clinic, died in suspicious circumstances. The family complained. Because Sabine was the victim of a pneumococcus in the heart of August.
Feverish, suffering martyrdom for a dozen hours, the nurses administered morphine to her at least twice. But she won’t see any doctor. They will not move, despite the multiple alerts that nurses say they have issued. “The delay in taking care of the patient lost 40 to 50% of the patient’s chance of survival” will note an expert during the instruction. Who is responsible for this drama? The head of emergencies that day, indicted? The boss of the gastroenterology department who is not being prosecuted? None is present at the hearing, nor the management of the clinic.
A clinic at the “deadly organization” denounces the prosecutor
The parquet evokes “a real medical disaster” in a clinic “to the deadly organization” : “too many temporary nurses, no traceability of the patient, difficulty in identifying the referring doctor” will list the Public Prosecutor’s Office. A prosecutor who even points “medical deafness” with nurses “which does not wait to bring in specialists for several hours while the cyanotic, blue patience”. 12 hours after her admission, around 5 p.m. on August 15, resuscitation too late will not save Sabine, an apparently healthy mother. The prosecution requested Tuesday at least 150,000 euros fine against the Cedars clinic and 6 months suspended sentence for the emergency doctor as well as 30,000 euros fine.
Has a gastroenterologist falsified a medical card to avoid being sued?
The defense of the offending doctor explained that “all the regulatory analyzes had been done” But “an MRI did not give sufficiently clear elements on a congenital problem of the patient”, “an atrophy or an absence of rate”. Me Laurent De Caunes also argued that a gastroenterologist, in the viewfinder at the start of the investigation, could have “falsified an admission form” to get through the drops and have his colleague accused. The defense of the Clinique des Cèdres was ensured by Me Frédéric Douchez. The relatives, present at the hearing, did not file a civil action. Awaiting civil proceedings for compensation. The decision of the correctional court was put under advisement on January 18.