Inspiration For 'Lebowski' Character Claims UCLA DOCS KILLED MY MOM

<h3 class="hf2-case" style="font-size: 58px; line-height: 54px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Inspiration For 'Lebowski' Character Claims</span></h3> <h2 class="hf3" style="font-size: 72px; line-height: 65px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">UCLA DOCS KILLED MY MOM</span></h2> <h5 class="article-posted-date" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; text-transform: uppercase;"> <span style="color: red;">4/29/2014</span></h5> <div class="article-content" style="background-color: white; color: #232323; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; word-spacing: 0.17em;"> <div class="primary-image-swipe" style="background-color: #c90202; color: white; font-size: 28px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; left: 5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; position: absolute; text-transform: uppercase; top: 15px;"> EXCLUSIVE</div> <div style="padding: 11px 0px;"> <img alt="Jeff The Dude Dowd Suing UCLA" src="http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/04/25/0425-jeff-dowd-tmz-7.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block;" /><br />Hollywood producer <strong>Jeff Dowd</strong> -- who inspired "<strong>The Dude</strong>" character in "<strong>The Big Lebowski</strong>" -- is suing UCLA's hospital for $10 million ... saying his mom died because of poor communication between doctors, TMZ has learned.<br /><br />According to the lawsuit ... Dowd's elderly mother was hospitalized March 29, 2013 suffering from bronchitis ... and was dead within a month after she got progressively worse -- suffering internal bleeding, dehydration and finally a massive stroke.<br /><br />Dowd tells TMZ ... his mother was handed off from one doctor to another, often without adequate information about what meds she was taking.  Dowd says it was that breakdown in communication that led to her death.<br /><br />Dowd -- who's also suing a convalescent home -- says he wants to help reform communications in the medical field ... saying hundreds of thousands of people die in hospitals every year from that kind of failure.<br /><br />And that ... the Dude does NOT abide.<br /><br />UCLA Med Center had no comment</div> </div>

Inspiration For 'Lebowski' Character Claims UCLA DOCS KILLED MY MOM

Inspiration For 'Lebowski' Character Claims UCLA DOCS KILLED MY MOM 4/29/2014 EXCLUSIVE Hollywood producer  Jeff Dowd  -- ...

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