- Joan
Franklin
How Preventable Medical Errors and Inadequate
Hospital Policies Resulted in Joan Franklin's Tragic Death
Kim Franklin-Marth's
Journal
Joan Franklin, mother of three and grandmother of seven, went to
a Dallas hospital on December 11, 2000 for a simple gall bladder
procedure. The gallbladder procedure was a success. However,
during the surgery, her anesthesiologist left Joan totally deprived
of oxygen for many minutes by failing to turn on an oxygen ventilator.
No one else in the operating room noticed. As a result, she suffered
severe brain damage and experienced massive convulsions and tremendous
pain for ten days before she died.
Joan Franklin's death could have been prevented
but for the inadequate procedures and policies in place at the
hospital and the negligence of her doctor and others.
Despite what happened during her surgery, her doctor
remains licensed to practice medicine in the State of Texas.
Joan's family has filed suit in a Texas state court against her
doctor, the hospital, and others in an effort to prevent their
family's ordeal from occurring to other families as a result
of preventable medical errors and inadequate procedures and policies
in our nation's hospitals.
Joan Franklin is only one of many thousands of
victims nationwide who die each year as a result of preventable
medical errors and inadequate procedures and policies in our
nation's hospitals. While there are many other stories that deserve
to be told, this is Joan Franklin's story.
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