APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A wrongful death civil trial started Monday in the case of a family suing Ascension St. Elizabeth Hospital.
The family of Grace Schara sued, claiming the doctors and nurses who cared for the 19-year-old during a hospitalization violated her patient rights when they listed her as a DNR, or do not resuscitate, without consent. They also say she was given a lethal cocktail of drugs that led to her death in October 2021. They claim when family members asked for doctors to step in and save the young woman, they did nothing.
Ascension St. Elizabeth has denied the claims.
The trial before Judge Mark McGinnis is scheduled to last up to four weeks.
