A woman wrecked her car, killing an innocent bystander. Now the bystander’s widow is suing the woman’s doctors, arguing that they should have warned her not to drive while taking the pain medicines they prescribed. The driver, Jane Berghold, crashed her car through a hospital entrance last year, killing two people. She has pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and settled a civil lawsuit. At the time of the crash, she told police she was undergoing chemotherapy but that her treatment didn’t affect her driving. But a lawyer representing the family of one of the people killed in the wreck says that Berghold, who is 77, had complained to doctors repeatedly about being light-headed and dizzy from the medication. “Mrs. Berghold should have been told not to drive,” the lawyer said. “And if she was advised, according to her, she would not have driven. And she wouldn’t have driven to Brockton Hospital, through the front doors, hitting my client and leaving a widow behind.” This case follows a ruling that came down last year from the Massachusetts Supreme Court allowing a similar lawsuit to proceed. Docs in the state don’t like it. “It’s reasonable to hold the doctor liable for those things that confine within the patient, doctor relationship, but anything beyond that is inappropriate and excessive,” said the president of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
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