Long Island Hospital Under Investigation

When we enter a hospital, we expect the hospital to take care of us. The following case, however, illustrates that some hospitals can be a dangerous place:

The investigation of Mercy Medical Center was prompted by the complaints of one of its doctors, Anthony Colantonio, who said a physician’s assistant had improperly inserted catheters, chest tubes and pacemakers into patients. Three such patients died, the doctor said: a 65-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman last summer, and a 19-year-old woman in October. The Health Department would not confirm whether the assistant was a focus of its investigation.

I am glad the doctor came forward. Sometimes this sort of thing is covered up.