Senator Edward Kennedy Suffers From Seizure

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, has been hospitalized after suffering from a seizure. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital where doctors worked hard to try to find the cause of the seizure. He was flown to the Massachusetts General on Saturday after becoming sick and being treated in the emergency room of Cape Cod Hospital.

Luckily, he did not suffer from a stroke, as the physicians first thought and he is currently doing well. Over the next couple of days he will have more evaluations done on him to find the cause and what should be done to treat him.

Woman Awarded Money For Waking During Surgery

On Wednesday, a court awarded a woman, from the southern Austrian province of Carinthia, $11,000 because five years ago she woke up during major abdominal surgery and was unable to tell the doctors how much pain she was in. She had originally demanded more than $57,000 in compensation for mental and physical suffering. The court rejected that amount because they said there wasn’t enough proof that the woman regained full consciousness during the operation. Her lawyer tried to argue the fact that the anesthesiologist forgot to attach a tube that was supposed to be used to keep the woman sedated. The woman said that she could fell the surgeons using a scalpel and other pieces of instruments but she wasn’t able to talk or move.