Funny, she sues AFTER the guy dies.  She's also a quite ungrateful person.
They were actually trying to help her husband live.  It's going to hinder
future studies of any kind due to fears of greedy/mislead ::expletive::s
suing.

And because euthanasia isn't legal in America, isn't this kinda like suing
the government for not allowing a assisted suicide to a family member and
ending pain?  What do you guys think?

Also on an off-subject note, I looked at the Southwestern Bell Yellow pages,
and the first page was abortion.  And it lasted up to 16 pages.  They really
played on the slogan "Woman's Right to Choose!"  hehe I think if you put
Woman and Rights in the same sentence you can really get their attention :)


PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The widow of a man who died after almost 10 months with
an artificial heart filed suit Wednesday against the maker of the device and
the hospital where it was implanted, saying her husband wasn't adequately
informed of the ordeal he would endure.

James Quinn, who died Aug. 26 after suffering a stroke, came to regret
taking part in the trial of the self-contained heart and had talked about
suing several months before his death, said his attorney, Alan Milstein.


Milstein said Quinn told him, "No human being should have to go through what
I'm going through."


Rather than physical pain, Milstein said, "I think he was referring more to
just the act of being an experimental subject, the prodding and the probing
and the feeling that you were just an object being studied."


But the suit, which seeks damages in excess of $100,000, also says shortly
before his death Quinn could barely breathe "and was in constant, unbearable
pain with extreme burning sensations in his back and throat."


Spokeswoman Molly Tritt said officials at Hahnemann University Hospital
hadn't seen the suit and wouldn't comment. Messages left with the heart
manufacturer, Abiomed Inc., and Tenet Healthcare, which owns Hahnemann,
weren't immediately returned.


Quinn, 52, was implanted with the AbioCor artificial heart Nov. 5. He
suffered a stroke Aug. 23 and was withdrawn from life support three days
later.


Of seven people implanted with the plastic-and-titanium Abiocor heart, only
one survives. The trial began more than a year ago.


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