The death of a Tennessee woman who was injected with an anticoagulant to which she was allergic constituted medical battery, a federal appeals court decided Feb. 14, reversing a lower court’s ruling.
The family of Pauline Sloan Shuler, who died in 2011 in the intensive care unit at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, sued for negligence and medical battery. Despite the medical-alert bracelet she wore noting her allergy to the anticoagulant heparin, notations in her medical records and her own explicit objections, medical staff injected Shuler with heparin, which was deemed the cause of her death.
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