Lawsuit charges hospital with negligence

BRANDON - A Plant City man has filed a lawsuit against the owners of Brandon Regional Hospital, charging negligence and wrongful death that he says cost him his wife of 39 years.

Where wife Mable was concerned,

The man's name is Alvie Mosley and he says where his wife Mable was concerned, it was love literally at first sight.

"If there is such a thing, I said I will have that lady, I love that woman, I want her," he said.

It was a love that blossomed for almost 40 years, a second marriage for both, with Mabel working first in Church Day Care Centers, and then driving a school bus for special needs kids.

"The kids loved her so much that they couldn't hardly get the kids off the bus when the bus got home," Alvie said.

In their last picture, taken last spring, the two are facing each other with adoring smiles. A picture just before severe shoulder and neck pain sent Mabel to Brandon Regional's emergency room, where doctors immediately started her on pain medication.

But then, even though she'd gotten relief from nearly all her pain, the lawsuit says Mrs. Mosley was given repeated doses of a powerful time release narcotic that literally medicated her to death, in spite of the hospital's computerized "Narcotic Delivery System" that was supposed to prevent such a thing, says Mosley attorney Patrick Dekle.

"They increased it three times within 12-hour stages, when its supposed to be 72 hours," Dekle says.

The thought of it, even a year and a half later, puts Mosley in tears.

"Sorry", he says, insisting, its not about money. "It's about people's lives. I mean, my wife died for no good reason, other than just people not doing their jobs."

Brandon Regional Hospital told us a spokesman was not available to comment on the lawsuit.

They've also refused, Mosley's attorney says, to release hospital records.

"This is a very serious thing that I'm doing, in saying that a national corporation has missed, run or misapplied somehow, the gate that keeps the wrong medications from being given to people," Dekle said.

Alvie Mosley says he asked the doctor, "what do I tell my grandchildren?" He says he hopes to name the doctor in the lawsuit, and prays he gets some answers in the courts.

Mosley, so far, is suing only the hospital pharmacists and the hospital's parent company. By Florida law, the doctor gets 90 days to answer questions about the case before he can be sued as well.