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Jury sides with family of woman who refused transfusion

Published in Blood Weekly, May 13th, 2004

The family of a Jehovah's Witness who refused a blood transfusion and died after surgery in November 2001 won a lawsuit against a surgeon who operated on her.

A St. Louis County Circuit Court jury on April 23, 2004, awarded $412,500 to the family of Linda Grissom. The lawsuit was against Ronald Gaskin, MD, the surgeon who cut Grissom's aorta when she was having her gallbladder removed and repaired the wound during the operation.

However, Grissom could not then have blood transfusions because that would have been contrary to her beliefs.

In the ruling, the jury awarded total damages of $750,000, but found the surgeon only 55% at...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2004-05-13)

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