A lawsuit filed in St. Louis Circuit Court Wedneday, claims Barnes-Jewish Hospital security guards twice beat a member of its medical residency staff.

It is a complicated case, and nothing has been proven in court, but the allegations are serious.

The claims are made by Oladimeji Alade, a former medical resident at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the psychiatric program.

Alade claims that on July 8th, 2011, and July 9th, 2011, hospital security guards beat him, the first time in his hospital office and the second time near the hospital parking lot.

According to the lawsuit, Alade had a rocky relationship with the director of the residency training program, who Alade says did not approve of his taking time off from his residency duties for military leave.  According to the suit, Alade is a Captain is the U.S. Army Reserves.

Under pressure, according to the suit, Alade resigned his residency effective July 11th, 2011.

St. Louis has some of the best hospitals in the nation. According to a report from the group "Health Grades", St. Louis hospitals rank eighth in the U.S. Researchers studied nearly 5,000 hospitals and based their ratings on the number of patient complications and deaths.

The city with the best hospitals in the nation is Baltimore.  Click here to see the full list.

Family and friends gathered Tuesday to pay their final respects to St. Louis businessman Jerry Clinton.  The 74-year old died January 18, 2012 after a five year battle with cancer.

During a funeral mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis on Lindell Blvd. Clinton was described as generous, shrewd, tough and kind.  "Jerry lived the American dream," said his friend, sportscaster Joe Buck.  He fought his way from poverty to wealth beginning with an entry level job for Anheuser Busch and eventually owning one of the most successful beer distributorships in the firm's history, Grey Eagle Distributing.

That success gave him opportunities.  Monsignor John Shamleffer, who delivered the homily and celebrated Mass, said the word "love" epitomized Clinton.  "Jerry took blessings he had and was able to touch so many people," Monsignor Shamleffer said.