Legal Opinion
Doctors Hospital of Augusta v. Alicea, Admrx.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 5, 2016No. S15G1571PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NAHMIAS, Justice.
In March 2012, Jacqueline Alicea’s 91-year-old grandmother, Bucilla Stephenson, died at the end of a two-week stay at Doctors Hospital of Augusta, LLC (“Hospital”). In May 2013, Alicea, acting as the administratrix of her grandmother’s estate, sued the Hospital and Dr. Phillip Catalano (collectively, “Defendants”). Alicea alleged among other things that the Defendants intubated her grandmother and put her on a mechanical ventilator, which prolonged her life when she was in a terminal condition and caused her unnecessary pain and suffering, contrary to her advance directive…
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