EVELYN HEINRICH, on behalf of her husband, GEORGE HEINRICH, and
HENRY M. SIENKEWICZ, on behalf of his mother, EILEEN ROSE SIENKEWICZ JR.,Plaintiffs, Appellants, Cross-Appellees,
ROSEMARY GUALTIERI, on behalf of her father, JOSEPH MAYNE, and
WALTER CARL VAN DYKE, Representative of the Estate of WALTER CARMEN VAN DYKE,Plaintiffs, Appellants,
v.
ELIZABETH DUTTON SWEET and FREDERICK H. GREIN JR.,
Representatives of the Estate of WILLIAM H. SWEET, M.D., and
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL,Defendants, Appellees, Cross-Appellants,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Defendant, Appellee,
ESTATE OF LEE EDWARD FARR, ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC., and
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,Defendants.
ERRATA SHEETThe opinion of the court, issued August 27, 2002, should be amended as follows:
Page 12, lines 19-20: Delete the remainder of the sentence after "summary judgment" and insert "against the plaintiffs' claims brought under the doctrine of Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971)." Retain the call for footnote 3 at the end of the paragraph.
Page 32, line 12: After the call for footnote 10, insert "it did not state the standard of care or that Sweet had violated the standard of care,".
Page 32, footnote 10: Footnote 10 should be changed to read as follows:
In fact, the totality of the pertinent testimony leading up to the Grodin testimony quoted in the text was as follows:
Q: [D]id you reach a conclusion as to whether or not those boron injection experiments had a favorable risk/benefit ratio at the time they were conducted in the period 1960 to 1962?
...
Opposing Counsel: Same objection.
The Court: Noted but overruled. He may answer.
A: That insofar as there was no therapeutic benefit to the boron injection in these terminally ill patients and there was some toxic potential for the boron compound that the risk outweighed the benefits.
Q: All right. And did you do a similar risk/benefit analysis with regard to the BNCT experiments?
A: Yes, I did.
Q: And what conclusion did you reach to a reasonable degree of medical certainty with regard to the BNCT experiments?
Opposing Counsel: Objection.
The Court: Overruled.
Among the other problems with his testimony is that Dr. Grodin's opinion about the boron injection was tied to the 1960-61 time period when the BNCT trials were conducted at MIT, but not his opinion about the BNCT experiments.
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