Fla. hospital defends secretly deporting patient
• APAll sides agree on one thing in the
strange case of a South Florida hospital that secretly repatriated a
seriously brain injured patient back to Guatemala.
During the
early hours of a steamy July 2003 morning, Martin Memorial Medical
Center chartered a private plane and sent 37-year-old Luis Jimenez back
to the Central American country without telling his relatives in the
U.S. or Guatemala _ even as his legal guardian frantically sought to
stop the move.
