"At Their Mercy"

By Junior Bodine

My Wifes Death

I see my self as saving patients lives and money. What that means to me is passing on my first hand experience of the malpractice death of my wife on July 19, 2004 , the resulting malpractice lawsuit suit and years of hard research on our health care system.

My wife was an outstanding lady. She was the first woman bank vice president in Lubbock , Texas . Her death devastated me and my son and his family to this day. In fact she was rocking one of his two daughters two nights before she went into hospital. Her death haunts me even more me because it was preventable! A preventable infection. I blindly trusted the health care system and was betrayed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496901712

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At Their Mercy

Junior Bodine

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Published by AuthorHouse  04/10/2014

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I dedicate this book to my wife

Margaret Scoggin

For without her there would be no book.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1   Bobbie Death

Chapter 2   The Truth About Malpractice

Chapter 3   Preventable Infection Fatalities

Chapter 4   Lawyers

Chapter 5   Doctors

Chapter 6   Nursing

Chapter 7   Numbers

Chapter 8   Conclusion—Final II—This is Master Copy

Introduction

Each year hundreds of thousands of patient are killed by preventable medical mistakes.

(Unaccountable book by Marty Makary, MD)

This book is the authentic first hand story of one of these deaths; my wife’s life and the accompanying malpractice lawsuit.

I was encouraged to file a lawsuit at the suggestion of a lawyer and a nurse. I love justice and have since I was a young boy. That is the reason I successfully pursued a Malpractice Law Suit.

I have always read; it moves me in a way that nothing else does. I read books by prominent lawyers of the past. I read Louis Nizer My life in Court. Louis Nizer quote: Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds. I read the painfully honest autobiography of Gerry Spence The Making of a Country Lawyer. I wrote Gerry Spence. In his answer to my letter he said "It is hard, very hard to get justice. Don’t give Up!

This is the epic story of the struggle against justice and inhumanity.

Chapter 1

Bobbie Death

Bobbie Jo Scoggin, my wife of 50 year, died suddenly and unexpectedly on July 19, 2004. Her death certificate, as certified by her physician, list septic meningitis as the immediate cause of her death and her manner of death as Natural Death. I understand there was an addenda to her death certificate saying the medicine methotrexate masked her symptoms? She was taking methotrexate for her arthritis.

The term Natural Death, as used, is an intriguing, puzzling term. It does not exist in medical terminology. It has been stricken from medical terminology. Texas Tech Medical School Library does not even list it even one time in the entire library. Amazingly doctors cannot certify any manner of death except Natural Death? (A non existent term). It is their default definition!

But if a patient dies within 24 hours of admission, a doctors cannot certify a death. He must call a medical examiner. The Handbook on Death Registration, on Page 6, says if the manner of death is other than Natural Death call the medical examiner.

It is understandable that the term natural death is no longer in use in modern day medicine. It is because, as a practical matter, the patient can be kept alive indefinitely blurring the meaning…

Bobbie’s story begin two weeks earlier on July 2, 2004 when she had a surgery on her lower back to relieve the intense pain caused by her sciatic nerve—a simple micro decompression—the simplest operation that an orthopedic surgeon performs. She was told she would be walking the next day and she was. She had elected to have this operation to eliminate the pain in her lower back so she could get on with her life. For the two days before July 17th Bobbie was feeling good enough to keep