Word: andreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half years ago Linda Ferris underwent Caesarean section, in the birth of a daughter, Andrea, at the Pasadena Bayshore Hospital. During the birth, the Ferrises claimed, Andrea suffered the oxygen deprivation that caused her to become permanently brain-damaged; according to doctors, she will remain at the mental and physical level of a two-year-old for the rest of her life, which could be 75 more years...
...Ferrises sued the Hospital Corporation of America-which owns the Pasadena Hospital--for malpractice, but settled out of court. The corporation agreed to pay the Ferrises $7000 a month for twenty years or for the rest of Andrea's life, whichever is longer, increasing 6 percent a year. If Andrea lives until she is 77, the total payment will come to $119 million, which would make it the largest malpractice payment ever...
What happened to Andrea Ferris is certainly a terrible thing, it is entirely reasonable and right for her parents to be awarded $7000 a month, or whatever is necessary to provide the extra care she will need for the rest of her life: nurses, therapy, medical supervision and so on. In a real sense, they will suffer more than Andrea will: she will never understand what has happened to her, while the Ferrises will be reminded every day, possibly for the rest of their own lives, of the terrible thing that happened to their daughter...
...distasteful to think that this money is nothing more than a sort of casual pacifier tossed to the Ferrises by HCA; Andrea's erased future cannot be quantified into dollars and cents. Although the settlement probably does not represent anything so consciously insensitive, people in this country are too quick to sue. Yelling for large sums of money has become the accepted way of resolving disagreements and solving problems--burying them in a mountain of dollar bills...
...Cross still played solid ball, but when Harvard awoke it exploded for five runs in the top of the first. The Cantabs had loaded the bases on two walks and an error when Ann Wilson connected for a single that scored the first two runs. Cindy Philips and Nancy Andrea followed Wilson with three more RBIs to round out the inning...