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{{PhotoMissing}}'''Jacob Sweet''' is ({{LifeData|birth=1986-01-16|birthplace=Anchorage, {{USSC|AK}}|death=2012-09-16|deathplace=Bellevue, {{USSC|WA}}|deathcountry=USA}}) was a boy who was born at [https://alaska.providence.org/locations/p/pamc Providence Hospital] in Anchorage, Alaska on Thursday, 16 January 1986. The following day, on Friday, 17 January 1986, James Nesbitt, M.D. {{MD}} of [https://tccpeds.com/Home The Children's Clinic], without [[medical indication]], provided the healthy infant with a non-therapeutic [[circumcision]]. The infant was then discharged home.<ref name="hammond2008">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.noharmm.org/sweet.htm
|title=Jacob Sweet
|last=Hammond
|first=Tim
|init=T
|author-link=Tim Hammond
|date=2008-02-22
|accessdate=2020-06-19
}}</ref>
== Complication of circumcision ==
Then on Saturday, January 25. Jacob was vomiting, fussy, and the circumcision site was red and swollen, so the Sweets returned to the hospital where they were met by Dr. Daniel Tulip, also of the Children's Clinic. Dr. Tulip admitted Jacob to the hospital.<ref name="hammond2008" />
[[Infection]] or sepsis is a well-known and common [[complication]] of [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Williams
|init=N
|author-link=
|last2=Kapila
|init2=L
|author2-link=
|etal=no
|title=Complications of circumcision
|journal=Brit J Surg
|location=
|date=1993-10
|volume=80
|issue=
|pages=1231-6
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/williams-kapila/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=8242285
|pubmedCID=10.1002/bjs.1800801005
|DOI=
|accessdate=2020-06-21
}}</ref>
The next morning (Sunday, January 26), the child had three stiffening spells, while his mother held him. The spells involved arching his back, rolling his eyes and turning red in the face. In the afternoon, he began to experience the spells every 45 minutes. At 9 p.m., the pediatrician put the child on an apnea monitor. The monitor sounded several times during the evening. Rather than respond to the alarm, the on-duty nurse turned down its volume to avoid disturbing the other patients. Finally, at 1 a.m., the child suffered a seizure while the pediatrician was present.<ref name="hammond2008" />
Jacob was severely brain damaged. He was blind and could not walk, talk, or care for himself in any respect.<ref name="hammond2008" />
==Legal proceedings==
The Sweets retained Alan Sherry and filed a suit for malpractice against the physicians and the hospital. The hospital lost the medical records of Jacob Sweet<ref name="milos1995">{{REFnews
}}</ref> so this made the Sweet's case more difficult to prove. The Sweets lost and, moreover, the physicians and hospital were awarded compensation of $150,000 for the physicians' legal expenses and $150,000 for the hospital's legal expenses by the trial court,<ref name="hammond2008" /> which were upheld by the Alaska Supreme Court.<ref>''[http://www.touchngo.com/sp/html/sp-4200.htm Sweet v. Sisters of Providence in Washington]'', 893 p.2d 1252 (Ala. Sup. Ct., April 14, 1995)</ref>
The Sweets then discovered that Sherry had misrepresented himself as an expert in malpractice proceedings. They then retained Mark Johnson of the Seattle legal and medical malpractice law firm of [https://www.johnsonflora.com/ Johnson Flora] to sue Alan Sherry. The [https://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/alan-sherry-896512 Sherry law firm Law Office] agreed to settle out of court for an undisclosed amount of damages.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Betrayed by Doctors and Lawyers in Alaska, Sweets Find Justice Through Seattle Malpractice Attorney
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/2000.03.08_Sweet/
}}</ref>
==Death==
Jacob Sweet died in Bellevue, Washington on Sunday, 16 September 2012 at the age of 26.<ref>{{REFweb
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Risks and complications]]
{{LINKS}}
* http://circumcisiondiaries.blogspot.com/2013_12_01_archive.html
* [http://www.sexuallymutilatedchild.org/sweet.htm Photographs of Jacob Sweet]
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