Hospital Wait Spurs Firing, Lawsuit

Summary


An emergency-room physician who worked under contract for nine years at Greater Southeast Community Hospital has filed a federal complaint, saying she recently saw patients waiting as long as 14 hours to receive treatment there.

The lawsuit filed by Dr. Annette Patterson in U.S. District Court seeks $5 million from National Emergency Services District of Columbia Inc., a New York company that supplies doctors to Greater Southeast and other health care facilities.

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Hospital Wait Spurs Firing, Lawsuit

Dr. Patterson expressed to hospital officials in September her concerns about patient care, including long wait...

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