Surprise surprise.

A teenage girl who underwent a second heart-lung transplant after doctors bungled the first one by giving her mismatched organs died yesterday from complications of her surgeries, officials said.
Jesica Santillan, 17, was pronounced dead at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., at 1:25 p.m. after she suffered brain damage following the second operation, and repeated tests failed to find blood flow to her brain or any brain activity, officials said. [...]
"All of us at Duke University Hospital are deeply saddened by this," the hospital's chief executive officer, William Fulkerson, said in a statement. "We want Jesica's family and supporters to know that we share their loss and their grief. We very much regret these tragic circumstances."

I'll just bet you regret them, especially since I reckon there's going to be a king-size malpractice lawsuit come out of this one. The hospital's basically already admitted guilt, so I suppose it's just a matter of which lawyer can chase the ambulance the fastest...

posted by James Russell | 3:50 PM