What is the impact of medical malpractice on a patient's mental health?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Wilks v. Hom, 2 Cal.App.4th 1264, 3 Cal.Rptr.2d 803 (Cal. App. 1992):
7 In Ochoa, a mother had witnessed her son's suffering, because defendants refused to treat his illness properly or allow her to take him from juvenile hall to the family doctor. (Ochoa v. Superior Court, supra, 39 Cal.3d 159, 216 Cal.Rptr. 661, 703 P.2d 1.)
* See footnote 1, ante.
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