Lawsuit Targets Tampa, Fla., Doctor's Training
St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa is responsible for the death because supervisors there did not make sure Fusia was properly trained on the da Vinci Surgical System robot, the Greenway family's attorney, Steven Yerrid, asserts in the lawsuit. The device has a mechanical arm guided by a surge...
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Published in | Knight Ridder Tribune Business News p. 1 |
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Format | Newsletter |
Language | English |
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Washington
Tribune Content Agency LLC
17.12.2003
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Summary: | St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa is responsible for the death because supervisors there did not make sure Fusia was properly trained on the da Vinci Surgical System robot, the Greenway family's attorney, Steven Yerrid, asserts in the lawsuit. The device has a mechanical arm guided by a surgeon seated at a control center with joysticks and a video screen, according to the company's Web site. The robot is manufactured by Intuitive Surgical Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif. Fusia attended a three-day seminar in June 2002 hosted by the manufacturer. Fusia was to use the machine to remove a kidney from a pig, but he did not complete the procedure, the lawsuit states. He did remove a gallbladder from a dead body. Yerrid also claims that Fusia told Greenway and his wife, Brenda Greenway, that he had used robots to remove kidneys "dozens" of times, though that wasn't true with the da Vinci machine, according to the lawsuit. |
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