Finger-pointing after patient death leads to lawyer disqualification 
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Published: December 4, 2009
When John Charles Sanford died after surgery at the MCV hospital in December 2006, his family found a lot of people to blame, from the medical personnel who treated Sanford to the nurses and security personnel who restrained him when he became delusional.
Sanford, who was 40 years old and mentally and physically disabled, had a ...
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