Tragic ‘kidney’ mom’s kin settle  The family of a Bronx mom who
died on a Montefiore Hospital operating table while trying to
donate a kidney to her beloved brother reached an unusually
quick legal settlement with the hospital yesterday.  The amount
of money that 41-year-old Yolanda Medina’s three daughters and
her still-ailing brother, Roberto Medina, will receive from
Montefiore under the deal is “confidential,” according to
Roberto’s lawyer, Ben Rubinowitz.  Roberto Medina, who is still
waiting for a kidney, said that while “we’re glad this was
resolved, no money can compensate for the loss of my sister.”
The settlement comes just four months after Yolanda bled to
death when her aorta was accidentally cut during the surgery.
Her death was the first ever in four decades in the live-donor
program at the Bronx hospital, which suspended the program as a
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