As he reviewed the allegations, Tim James couldn’t believe they were real.
A 79-year-old Nebraska woman had gone into the hospital for spine surgery on March 17, 2010. Within a month, she had two more surgeries. Then more surgeries. Then more surgeries.
Almost a year to the day from that first surgery, Frances Bockholt died in a Yankton nursing home after undergoing more than a dozen surgeries, including some because the first procedures had caused an infection in her spine.
James, a Yankton lawyer, couldn’t fathom how it happened. Surely, he thought, somebody in the hospital would raise an alarm. A nurse, an anesthesiologist, a lab technician. Somebody.
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