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The County of Los Angeles's decision to sever ties between the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science and a county hospital that had been plagued for years by reports of shoddy care has crippled the university and "callously set adrift" 248 medical residents, according to a $125-million lawsuit the university has said it will file.
The medical school has scrambled to find new training sites for participants in 15 residency and fellowship programs now that they can no longer train at the nearby hospital. The county scaled back the 537-bed Martin Luther King Jr./Charles R. Drew Medical Center last year into a nonteaching, 42-bed facility with no residency programs.
County officials have blamed the medical school for...