AJC
Notre Dame coach still pursuing lawsuit
Weiss says doctors botched surgery
Associated Press
It was a dramatic end to a trial that pitted Notre Dame football coach
Charlie Weis against two respected surgeons: a juror collapsed, the doctors rushed to his aid and the judge declared a mistrial.
Some in the legal community thought Weis would then reach a settlement with the two Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons rather than go through a retrial.
But with no settlement in sight, the former Patriots offensive coordinator is heading back to court this week for a second trial in a year on his claim that the surgeons botched his care after gastric bypass surgery in 2002.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Friday in Suffolk Superior Court.
Weis claims the doctors acted negligently by allowing him to bleed internally for 30 hours after the surgery before performing a second operation to correct the complication. He was in a coma for two weeks and nearly died.
But the Boston doctors,
Charles Ferguson and
Richard Hodin, testified that routine postoperative tests did not reveal any problems, and that bleeding is a known complication.
``It is the position of the doctors who were involved in the care of Mr. Weis that he received very appropriate care,'' said
William Dailey Jr., the doctors' attorney.