University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1983
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Bill Kurtis, co-anchor for the "CBS Morning News," conducted a short press conference before speaking at the Higher Education Week Banquet Saturday night. Kurtis graduated from the KU School of Journalism in 1962.
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
KU Med Center to appeal decision
Parents win $750,000 malpractice judgment
an attorney for the University of Kansas Medical Center said yesterday that he would appeal a $750,000 judgment against the Med Center in a malpractice suit that ended Friday in Wyandotte County District Court.
The attorney, Reid Holbrook, said he would file a motion for a new trial as soon as he found grounds to appeal. He said the jury had disregarded evidence in the two-week trial.
The plaintiffs, Billy and Terri Laudan, filed suit in December 1981 against the Med Center and six physicians, charging that their 3-year-old son, Shawn Travis Laudan, contrapete an alleged assault by a jaundice at the Med Center's pediatric departement between Dec. 28, 1979, and Jan. 5, 1980.
THEY SAID BRAIN damage resulting from negligence by the hospital and physician delayed Shawn's speech development, Holbrook said.
However, Holbrook said testimony from various infectious disease and pediatric specialists showed that there was no brain damage at all.
Attorneys representing the Laudans were unavailable for comment.
Holbrook said the key witness for the plaintiff was a clinical psychologist, who said Shawn has been sued.
"The medical care provided by the doctors met and exceeded accepted standards," he said.
"They evidently didn't pay heed to the evidence."
Shawn has a speech impediment, he said, but it is common in young children.
Kevin Holm, an attorney for one of the
physicians, said the defense provided physicians
from other hospitals to testify that there was no deficiencies in equipment standards
ONE OF THE physicians examined Shawn and found no brain damage, he said.
He said that he had not expected the verdict, but that it was difficult to predict what a jury would decide.
One of the important factors in the trial, he said, was hospital records that were not complete, because nurses and physicians had not kept careful notes on the patient's progress.
Holbrook said the Med Center must pay 42 percent of the award, two of the physicians must pay 15 percent, one must pay 10 percent and the three others must pay 6 percent each.
Hold said he would file a motion for a new trial with Holburn in about 10 days.
Half of the award is to go for Shawn's medical expenses and education until he is 18, and the other half is to go for similar expenses after he turns 18.
Kurtis
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HE SAID HE was walking through a Vietnamese village when he noticed a child who hid
"I learned that the child's mother didn't have a job and that the child was not in school," he said "Soon, mothers of these American sisters lost their jobs and their names and family histories into my pockets."
"They asked me to take the children out of the country."
He said a Vietnamese woman followed him around the village on a bicycle after he delivered the letters to the U.S. Embassy, and at one point she stopped and reached into her coat.
"I thought it was that moment," he said. "But she pulled out another letter instead."
He said that dioxin was now called a national crisis and that the Vietnamese children with U.S. fathers were now being used as pawns by the U.S. and Vietnamese governments
He also criticized the Veterans Administration for stalling on its Agent Orange studies.
were later studies that linked it to health problems," he said. "But four years later we learned they had not even recorded the veterans' home addresses."
After his speech, several KU officials, faculty members and students were recognized for their contributions.
Blair Tinkle, president of Student Union Activities, announced that Sandra Ward, Lawrence junior, was the 1983 University Service Scholarship Award Winner.
FACULTY WHO RECEIVED the Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Awards were Edwyna Gilbert, associate professor of English; Marie Cross, associate professor of human development; J. Eldon Fields, professor of political science; Calder Pickett, professor of journalism; and Del Shankel, professor of microbiology
Tinker said Ward would receive a $600 scholarship next fall.
Higher Education Service Awards were given to Warner Ferruston, associate director of the
Kansas Union; Catherine Giele, assistant program director of the Union; and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
"THEY AGREED TO record names of veterans exposed to Agent Orange in case there
DAVID WELCH, chairman of the Higher Education Week steering committee, announced that Olin Petfishet, a Lawrence attorney and counsel to the Kansas University Endowment Association, had won the University's Higher Education Leadership Award.
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Petifish he would accept the award on behalf of the "sung and unsung heroes" of KU, namely the Endowment Association and donors contributions helped maintain the University.
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, announced that Tom Berger, Lawrence graduate student, would receive $200 as the winner of the first award for graduate student achievement.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig announced that William McLennan, Salaem, N.H., senior was the winner of the Rusty Leffel Concerned Student Award.
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