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Gay nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital personally apologize to lesbian whose partner died there
BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com Several nurses from Jackson Memorial Hospital offered personal apologies Thursday night to Janice Langbehn, the Washington state lesbian who says a Jackson social worker wouldn’t allow her to be with her dying partner in 2007. “We certainly are sorry for the pain and suffering she felt,” said Martha Baker, a registered nurse and president of SEIU local 1991, the union representing about 5,000 doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals at Jackson. “I apologize,” said registered nurse Norberto Molina, chairman of the union’s gay Lavender ...

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