March 30, 2007

Medical School to Sue County Over Loss of Residencies

By KATHARINE MANGAN

The County of Los Angeles's decision to sever ties between the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science and a county hospital that had been plagued for years by reports of shoddy care has crippled the university and "callously set adrift" 248 medical residents, according to a $125-million lawsuit the university has said it will file.

The medical school has scrambled to find new training sites for participants in 15 residency and fellowship programs now that they can no

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