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Sat 01 Jan 2008Suit filed against Los Angeles hospital after paraplegic
dumped on Skid Row
US:A mentally ill paraplegic man has filed a lawsuit against a hospital which dumped him in a gutter on Los Angeles's "Skid Row" - a case that highlighted the plight of the city's vast homeless population.
Gabino Olvera (42) sued the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center for negligence after it discharged him in February 2007, took him across town in a van and left him in a soiled hospital gown without a wheelchair in the heart of the city's homeless area.
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