Legal Opinion
Heinrich Ex Rel. Heinrich v. Sweet
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 27, 2002No. 00-2553 to 00-2555PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This is a medical malpractice case, brought in 1995, for the deaths of two Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) patients in 1961. The plaintiffs sued the doctor and institutions responsible for treating their decedents, Eileen Sienkew-icz and George Heinrich, who suffered from a terminal form of brain cancer, with an experimental treatment known as boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). BNCT proved not to save the lives of Sienkewicz or Heinrich.
The plaintiffs’ complaint included eleven causes of action. By the time the case reached trial, there were only three causes of…
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