A hospital’s failure to present a patient’s discharge instructions to her for review before the document was introduced at cross-examination could have prejudiced the plaintiff’s medical malpractice suit, the Superior Court has ruled in reversing a defense verdict.
In a Jan. 21 memorandum opinion, a unanimous three-judge panel held that the jury in Bonilla v. Jeanes Hospital could have been influenced by the belief that Quadina Bonilla was the cause of her injuries for failing to follow discharge instructions ordering her to seek immediate medical help if symptoms arose. Bonilla had been presented with summary discharge instructions, but not the extended discharge instructions with the warning, the court said.
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