Bitter and Bitten is a lawsuit about Lofton Jackson vs. Northwestern University Hospital. Mr. Jackson is a university campus police officer who was called from his post, adjacent to the hospital, to help subdue a patient out of control. He has assisted the ER in the past with these types of patients. Before Mr. Jackson arrived, the patient had informed the ER staff that he has AIDS. It is the hospital policy to inform any staff member if a patient is infected with AIDS and they have done so in the past. Well, they neglected to inform Mr. Jackson of the patient’s disease even though the patient was bleeding all over the room and subsequently the patient bit Mr. Jackson. Mr. Jackson then was seriously upset about being possibly diagnosed with
