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...owned up and agreed to pay New York State $13,000 in fines, review the credentials of its entire medical staff and report to the state on any other deaths occurring within 24 hours of admission. A malpractice suit by Zion's parents is still pending. But in the Warhol case, the hospital pleads innocent. "We have done many terrible things in the past," says Dr. David Thompson, the institution's director. "This is not one of them...
Certain facts in the case are not in dispute. Warhol, 58, underwent surgery at the hospital on Feb. 21. At 4:30 the next morning, his private nurse, Min Cho, made note of his increasing pallor, but it was not until 5:45, when he was "unresponsive" and turning blue, that she summoned the hospital's cardiac-arrest team. He was pronounced dead at 6:31 a.m., of an unexplained heart arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat...
According to the state, the hospital did not thoroughly evaluate Warhol before surgery, may have missed a possible allergy to the antibiotics he was given, and may have allowed him to become overhydrated. It also charged that Cho should have sought help sooner and faulted the hospital for not supervising her properly...
...business," fumed Thompson. "People read the health department's report in the newspapers and think it is gospel. It is, in fact, a poorly investigated, erroneous account of what happened." In a hastily prepared but detailed 35-page reply, the institution defended its pre-surgery evaluation of Warhol and said the artist was neither allergic to the antibiotic nor overhydrated. It did admit that staff nurses should have visited his room more frequently, and has disciplined the individuals involved...
Whether these factors played a role in Warhol's death remains uncertain. Indeed, despite a continuing investigation by Manhattan's district attorney, chances are no one will ever know precisely why Warhol died. Unexpected arrhythmias sometimes strike after surgery, and medical scientists admit that the cause remains a mystery...