Anesthesiologist receives $8.8 million but ruined reputation
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, June 3, 2011
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After six years of trying to defend his reputation, Dr. Charles Williams was awarded $8.8 million against defendants University Medical Center (UMC). Williams, who spent part of the last six years homeless and living out of his car as he tried to clear his name, accused UMC of “throwing him under the bus,” after a botched kidney transplant surgery. Williams also accused UMC of denying him his due process rights and accusing him of drug abuse despite the many drug tests that came back clean, according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal. The defendants not only accused Williams of drug abuse, but also of mismanaging the airways of three patients, leaving one brain damaged, and acting unprofessionally with his colleagues at UMC.
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