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Health Care & Hospital Law

Apr. 11, 2002

The Two Faces of Medicine

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - Thomas L. Morris, an African-American postal worker who worked at the anthrax-exposed Brentwood postal facility in Washington, D.C., died three days after a Maryland medical center misdiagnosed his symptoms. Recently, attorneys for his family, including Johnnie Cochran, filed a $37 million lawsuit accusing the Kaiser Permanente medical center of malpractice, wrongful death and negligence, among other things.

        Forum Column
        
        By Leslie T. Thornton

        Thomas L. Morris, an African-American postal worker who worked at the anthrax-exposed Brentwood postal facility in Washington, D.C., died three days after a Maryland medical center misdiagnosed his symptoms. Re...

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