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Dr. Joan R. Golub, the gynecologist, was found responsible for almost $60,000, and the other UHS physician, Dr. Jennifer Jones--who is now practicing medicine in Tennessee--was cleared of the charges.
When, after three weeks of testimony and four days of jury deliberation, the malpractice trial of two University Health Services (UHS) physicians and a private gynecologist finally came to an end on Tuesday, questions facing UHS officials were only beginning.
The Middlesex Superior Court awarded cancer patient Gena Glicklich nearly $400,000 in damages, and determined that Dr. Alan R. Spievack--one of the UHS doctors--was responsible for $339,979 of that figure.
UHS officials must now determine Spievack's fate at UHS. Although the verdict had no immediate affect on his employment status at the service, Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of UHS, said earlier this week that UHS's quality assurance committee will review the case.
Testimony in the negligence trial of two University Health Services (UHS), doctors and a private physician ended this week with cancer patient Gena Glicklich's attorney telling a Middlesex Superior Court jury in a closing statement that Glicklich's doctors had committed a "chain of errors" that has shortened her...