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Thank you all so much for the replies to my post–I appreciate every word. Some of you suggested that I speak to a lawyer, but, I have already traveled that road with no success. My probate lawyer, who was a friend of my husband’s, insisted that I talk to a lawyer friend of his in Cleveland. After reading Neil’s medical records, and the reports of what happened at the Cleveland Clinic, he said that he could not pursue a case against them due to the fact that it would cost too much to sue, and that there was a slim chance of winning due to Neil’s advanced cancer when he was injured. In other words, if you arrive at the Cleveland Clinic with advanced cancer, they can injure you in any way they want to, because they know most lawyers will not spend the necessary money to sue them. They used Neil as a “guinea pig” to perform numerous tests such as a colonoscopy (which caused him to bleed profusely), an endoscopy, kidney dialysis, a feeding tube–all without much pain medication. My husband had huge, bearpaw hands that were tied down at the end of his life. No one should have to die that way, but, the clinic treated him as if he were just a room number–not a beloved husband, father, and grandfather. Neil was an avid Lake Erie fisherman, and I always worried about him when he was on the lake–I think it is ironic that he lost his life not on the water, but on the shore in the Cleveland Clinic. Thanks for listening…