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According to Shearer, the lawsuit emerged after she attempted to determine why her husband’s condition was not detected sooner. When earlier this year she showed experts an X-ray of her husband’s chest taken in Feb. 2001, 13 months before the cancer was detected, the experts told her that they were able to see the lesion which led to Gould’s death...
...never heard about this X-ray with the one centimeter lesion [from the hospital],” Shearer said...
According to the lawsuit, Mayer reviewed the X-ray himself in Feb. 2001 and then told Gould to “go home and relax...
...Salah, who had lost so much that he needed a transfusion. By the time the rest of the TIME Baghdad staff was alerted and arrived at the hospital, the ER workers had done what they do best: stopped the blood loss and patched up the wounds. The ancient X-ray machine revealed that Abu Karam and Salah had many pieces of shrapnel lodged in their bodies, but there were no serious internal wounds...
...brown disinfectant, but their halfhearted labor was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of patients and visitors. Nobody paid any attention to the NO SMOKING sign, not even the doctors and nurses. Broken windows allowed dust to enter, and swarms of flies buzzed around the patients; we used the X-ray films to swat them away. "All the rules of hygiene we learned have been broken here," said veteran nurse Hadi Abdel Karim as he paused for a cigarette break in a corner of the ER. "But we have no time and no money to spend on cleanliness." When...