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Article: Duke reaches settlement with Jesica Santillan's family; terms sealed.(Duke University Health System )(Brief Article)
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- June 30, 2004
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Duke University Health System has reached a settlement with the family of Jesica Santillan, the Mexican teenager who died on February 22, 2003 after receiving a mismatched blood type heart-lung transplant.
Duke pediatric transplant surgeon James Jaggers, MD, who had know Jesica for 2 years and performed the transplant, took full responsibility for accepting the mismatched organs.
The terms of the settlement were sealed but included an agreement that neither the hospital nor the family is allowed to comment. Jesica's mother Magdalena did not file a lawsuit saying she did not want to relive the ordeal in a courtroom.
Duke offered a settlement ...