When Kay Perrin, a nurse at a Tampa, Fla., hospital, noticed pregnant women coming in for their second and third amniocentesis she started to ask questions. Those questions led to a lawsuit and, a full 10 years later, a $3.8 million settlement. The suit, in federal court in Tampa, accused the hospital and doctors of performing random medical experiments (including multiple amnios) on thousands of high-risk pregnant women without their proper consent.
March 22, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
It took Kay Perrin only a week to realize something was wrong.
It was fall 1987, and Perrin, a nurse at Tampa General Hospital, in Tampa, Fla., had just been transferred temporarily to the outpatient, high-risk obstetrical unit. She noticed something unusual. Pregnant, mostly indigent women, some of whom spoke or understood only Spanish, were coming in for their second and third amniocentesis. Some had had even more.
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