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Autopsy tiff with hospital leaves womans body in limbo |
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Written by DeadGirl
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Thursday, 23 September 2004 |
By David Weber and Kay Lazar
September 23, 2004
It's been 10 days since a Weymouth woman died at South Shore Hospital, but her body still has not been released to her family because of a dispute over an autopsy.
``We want some closure. We're just trying to get my wife buried,'' said Jerome Marques, on the verge of tears after going to court yesterday for the second time in three days.
Lucy Marques, 76, died Sept. 13 after more than two months at South Shore Hospital. Her husband and grown children believe she may have died because of medical malpractice and have asked the hospital to allow a doctor chosen by the family to observe an autopsy.
Because Lucy Marques' body lies in bureaucratic limbo, her family has not yet been able to make any funeral arrangements.
``They can't even put an announcement in the paper and get together with family and friends and have any formal grieving because they don't know when she will be released,'' said family attorney Shawn Cotter.
Family attorney Shawn Cotter asked Norfolk Superior Court Judge Patrick Brady yesterday to force the hospital to allow their own doctor to be present for the autopsy. Brady denied the request, noting that the doctor chosen by the family to observe was not certified in Massachusetts to perform autopsies.
South Shore Hospital lawyer Michelle Dineen Jerrett said the hospital has a contract with Quincy Pathology Associates to perform its autopsies, which forbids outsiders during autopsies.
``Contrary to any suggestion they are trying to cover anything up, the hospital is trying to let the evidence be what it is,'' Jerrett said.
Hospital senior vice president Marvin Lipschutz said, ``We fully appreciate the family's desire for closure and respect their decision to have an autopsy conducted - whether they choose to have the autopsy performed by a pathologist affiliated with our hospital or by another pathologist. We want them to feel confident that a thorough and accurate autopsy will be performed.''
Massachusetts Department of Public Health spokeswoman Nicole St. Peter said her office has just received a complaint from the Marques family.
``We are currently taking at look at it,'' she said, but no formal investigation is under way at this point.
During his wife's time in the hospital, Jerome Marques said, the family often felt that doctors were putting her through unnecessary procedures.
He said the family never consented to a catheter being inserted into a blood vessel in her chest, which Marques believes caused his wife's death.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=45600 |
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