A Kansas woman has filed suit against Saint Luke’s Health System and doctors, seeking $25,000 in damages for alleged medical malpractice and negligence for failing to correctly diagnose her with MS.
St. Louis-based BJC Healthcare and Kansas City-based Saint Luke’s Health System will soon officially merge to form an integrated Missouri-based health system.
Tradition also credits Luke as the first person who painted icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary, making him not just the patron saint of doctors and surgeons but also of artists and painters.
“Patients undergoing surgery at Saint Luke’s were treated with chipped, rusty, cracked, dull, broken, obsolete, and bent instruments,” the complaint read.
Tradition also credits Luke as the first person who painted icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary, making him not just the patron saint of doctors and surgeons but also of artists and painters.