'Perhaps, his patient still would not have survived, but we will never know that because left her to go home,' Cohen wrote. The judge added that had Lopez returned to the hospital after changing into a fresh set of scrubs, he might have saved his patient. The married mother-of-two, 40, who had only hours earlier delivered her long-hoped-for second child, a son, went into a cardiac arrest and died while Lopez was at home.Ĭohen concluded that Lopez's decision to leave the hospital to go home, clean up and go to sleep 'was where is failure to complete his care for his patient, led, ultimately to her untimely death.' Lopez claimed that his scrubs were drenched in his patient's blood, and that he did not have clean clothes at the hospital, so he headed home, leaving a badly bleeding Castillo Lopez in the care of a nurse, an anesthesiologist and an ICU doctor available only via telemedicine, reported Miami Herald.
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