A credible claim?

Agency Gets Complaint to Suspend George Tiller's License After Botched Abortion One of George Tiller's abortion patients complained to the medical board that the doctors he hired nearly killed her. She came to the clinic during the multi-day procedure, suffering from a spiking fever. She said that they locked her in a room for four hours without medical care, ignoring her cries for help. That sounds familiar to me. Another woman had sue Tiller after her abortion in 1980. After injuring the woman, according to the suit:

"[Tiller] told the nurses to put plaintiff in some room used for storage and other uses and plaintiff was placed on a cold x-ray table, and the room that plaintiff was put in was not private.... [Tiller] permitted a police officer to come in and loaf in the room where plaintiff was taken." Nauseated and cold, Cathy cried out for help. "[Tiller] permitted his employees to come into the room where plaintiff was placed and tell the plaintiff to shut up, that the other girls had not had their abortions yet and that she was scaring them and plaintiff cried out from the pain." Cathy nevertheless continued to cry out for another forty-five minutes. "[Cathy] had to call out several times for help and finally a patient came into the room and after learning why this plaintiff was calling for help informed plaintiff that she would try to find someone to help this plaintiff." The patient found a nurse, and told her that Cathy was cold, in pain, and about to vomit. "A nurse appeared with a plastic cup for Plaintiff to throw up into and a wet paper towel, and the nurse immediately left. .... Defendant's employees failed to inform plaintiff's husband of what had happened to plaintiff after plaintiff had requested defendant's employees to do so." Cathy was left for over two hours in the cold room.

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