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Personal Injury & Torts

Mar. 17, 2009

Doctor Wins $6 Million From Employer for Botched Surgery

Loma Linda Medical Center is told it must pay $5.8 million in damages to a patient and his wife for a botched back surgery. The patient was a doctor at the hospital.

By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN BERNARDINO - A Superior Court jury has ordered Loma Linda University Medical Center to pay nearly $6 million to one of its doctors for a botched surgery on the physician's back. Mark Macknet, a doctor at the medical center, argued the intense back pain he suffers as a result of the operation will force him to retire several years earlier than he had planned. Jurors awarded the damages Wednesday to Mackn...

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