The boy locked in my coatroom carried a photograph of the pregnant wife I had buried seven years ago
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Chapter 14 - St. Vincent’s liability
Hospital network faced civil claims from:
Evelyn.
Caroline’s estate.
Possibly me.
Failure points:
Patient identification during evacuation.
Transfer-code reconciliation.
Death identification.
Failure to respond when duplicate code emerged.
But the hospital did not know Maude’s later lies.
Mercy East also had failure:
Accepted third-party request to restrict identity without adequate verification.
Recovery residence:
Relied on Maude’s claims.
Different liability.
Different causation.
Settlement discussions began.
No hospital CEO arrested.
No entire network closed.
Medical systems failed.
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A private actor exploited failure.
Both mattered.
