(UT Martin Pacer)

Weakley County jury sided with a Martin, Tennessee hospital on Tuesday, clearing the hospital of any wrongdoing in a wrongful death suit made by the family of a dead UTM student.

The lawsuit which asked for $10 million in damages and court costs, alleged that when Jodi Woods – an Education major from Lawrenceburg, Tenn. – went into the Volunteer Community Hospital emergency room complaining of a stiff neck, high fever and severe headache, nurses and doctors suspected her of being on drugs, tied her to a bed with leather straps and asked if she “was a drama queen.”

“Jodi Woods cried out in agony and moaned so loudly that it echoed through the corridors of the Emergency Department, disturbing those who sat waiting,” the lawsuit says. “Jodi Woods was wholly isolated and alone while the hospital staff was joking around with one another in the intake area.”

Woods died in June 2006 at Jackson – Madison County General Hospital from complications with meningitis soon after being transferred.