Arkansas Doctors Accused of Treating Without Consent

Thank you to the reader who informed me that the UAMS-affiliated Children’s Hospital has also been sued arising from treatment without consent. The complaint, which you can download below, was made by a nurse who was terminated. She claimed that she was afraid that if she followed Dr. Robert Jaquiss’s orders to prepare for non-consensual surgery, she would be committing a “felony.” So, she refused.

Well, ya, it probably would be battery and false imprisonment to treat a patient without consent. But the powers that be in Arkansas are likely not to prosecute.

Children’s Hospital and Dr. Jaquiss were represented by Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C.

According to the Democrat-Gazette, Dr. Jaquiss left Arkansas’s Children’s Hospital in 2010. He works at Children’s Wisconsin now, according to that hospital’s website.