Word: loquitur
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...Brooklyn Family Court Judge Harold Felix has attacked all that in the case of an infant whom a hospital found suffering from broken legs and ribs. Charged with abuse, the parents sought dismissal for lack of evidence against them. Judge Felix invoked the negligence-law principle of res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself). When he got no satisfactory explanation, he took the child away from its parents, setting a precedent that courts in other states may well find persuasive...
...Ipsa Loquitur. A.M.A. studies show that two-thirds of malpractice claims originate from in-hospital incidents. Sponges occasionally are sewn into patients' stomachs (a group of California hospitals recently reported a run on "lost sponges"-18 in a single year). Obstetricians have been known to deliver one baby and quit, leaving its twin behind. Surgeons have removed a kidney only to discover that one is all the patient had. A more common cause: transfusions of mismatched blood, which kill about 3,000 patients a year in the U.S., injure thousands more. In such cases, where human error is clearly...