The case of Jessica Santilan is a civil case. Jessica Santillan Jessica Santillan was a seventeen year old girl who died 15 days after receiving a heart and double-lung transplant at Duke University Hospital. Her body rejected the transplant after she received an organ transplant from someone who was blood type A and she was a blood type O, something over a dozen people were supposed to check, but didn’t. The hospital hid the mistake for 11 days, and then went public looking for another donor, unfortunately by that time Jessica was declared brain dead before she could receive the second transplant.
This is the case of medical negligence which most times falls under civil case than criminal case. In medicine to prove criminal intent, there
