Donald Winston has been waiting a long time for justice, but that doesn’t make it any easier for the surgeon to endure 17 years of litigation in a dispute with a hospital in Houston that suspended his privileges in 1983. “It couldn’t be more frustrating. I didn’t expect this at all,” says Winston, now 57 and a litigation consultant in Houston. Winston’s first long wait ended in October 1996, when the 1st Court of Appeals in Houston finally handed down an opinion in Donald Winston M.D., et al. v. American Medical International Inc., et al. nearly four years after oral arguments. At the time, Winston’s appeal was the oldest in the state.
The 1st Court’s opinion allowed Winston to proceed with some of his claims, and after mediation in 2000, Winston eventually agreed to a $350,000 settlement of the suit.
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