Just in...Charlie Weis' malpractice trial went to jury deliberation, and just like that...the surgeons were 'exonerated'. See The Wizard of Odds for the best coverage in the nation.
The Boston News-Herald carried the first story on the verdict:
Suffolk Superior Court
jury has just exonerated two Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons of
any wrongdoing in the medical malpractice case brought by former New
England Patriots [team stats] offensive coordinator Charlie Weis.
Weis,
51, left the courtroom with a cell phone to his ear. His attorney
Michael Mone threw a hand up in front of a Herald reporter’s face when
Weis was asked to comment on the loss, his second attempt to find Dr.
Charles Ferguson and Dr. Richard Hodin negligent in a gastric bypass
surgery performed on Weis five years ago.
The jury deliberated for about two hours before siding with the doctors. The jurors declined to comment after the case.
Looks like Weis can go back to coaching football. We thought that Weis might be scoring points in this trial, as documented by the Wizard of Odds. However, the jury appears not to have been impressed with Team Weis.
The doctors’ attorney, William Dailey, told the Herald the doctors “wished Weis the very best.”
Weis,
now the head coach at Notre Dame, continues to struggle with his weight
and has partial paralysis in both his feet, he said in court.
Weis
accused the surgeons of negligence for allowing him to bleed internally
for 30 hours before performing a second surgery to correct the
complication.
The
doctor who performed the gastric bypass on Weis testified last week
that the Type A NFL coach ignored his medical judgment in order to cram
the risky operation into a timeline weeks shorter than is advisable.
“I would say he pushed himself through it,” said Dr. Ferguson of Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady [stats] attested to Weis’ disappointment over being unable to attend a preseason game.
"He’s
always been an extremely intense person, an intense individual, an
intense coach," Brady said in the first trial. His testimony was read
back to the jury last week by a stand-in - depriving the retrial of its
star power.
"I
think he’s never allowed anybody to give any less than his best," Brady
said. "It was never perfect. He had the highest expectations of anybody
I’ve ever been around."
Perhaps Team Weis can replace Team Astana at the Tour de France, who withdrew today...
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