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______ VERDICT - EMERGENCY ROOM MALPRACTICE - BRAIN DAMAGE TO MINOR PLAINTIFF ALLEGEDLY RESULTING FROM DELAY IN TREATMENT DUE TO ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE OF DEFENDANT EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIAN IN FAILING TO UNDERTAKE A THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF THE MINOR PLAINTIFF AND CONTACT HIS TREATING PEDIATRICIAN TO ADVISE THAT HE BE HOSPITALIZED.
The minor plaintiff, age six months at the time and nine years old at trial, brought this malpractice suit against the emergency room physician who examined and treated him in the emergency room of the Pioneer Hospital in August of 1982. The plaintiff contended that the defendant was negligent in failing to undertake a thorough examination of the minor plaintiff, which would ha...
- from The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (29619) Login for A/T/S Verdict
______ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - NEGLIGENT FAILURE OF DEFENDANT OSTEOPATH TO TAKE BLOOD CULTURES UPON PLAINTIFF'S PRESENTATION IN EMERGENCY ROOM - FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE STAPH AUREUS ENDOCARDITIS - PLAINTIFF REQUIRES THREE MAJOR HEART SURGERIES AND SIX ADDITIONAL INVASIVE PROCEDURES.
This medical negligence action was brought by a 38-year-old plaintiff who contended that the defendant, a non-specialist osteopathic physician, was negligent in failing to take blood cultures that would have revealed Staph Aureus Endocarditis, and further misdiagnosed the plaintiff as suffering from influenza and chronic bronchitis. The plaintiff claimed that as a result of the...
- from The Pennsylvania Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (41382) Login for A/T/S Verdict
______ VERDICT - WRONGFUL DEATH AND SURVIVALACTION - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - FAILURE TO PERFORM PROPER TESTING AND FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE LUNG CANCER - NINE MONTH DELAY IN DIAGNOSIS DEPRIVES DECEDENT OF SIGNIFICANT CHANCE OF SURVIVAL HE OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE HAD.
This was a death action brought by the estate of the male decedent, age 47 at the time of his death from lung cancer. The plaintiff brought suit against two osteopathic physicians who examined the decedent for upper respiratory complaints which the plaintiff contended were consistent with lung cancer. The defendant osteopathic family physician who saw the decedent on two occasi...
- from The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (29667) Login for A/T/S Verdict
______ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - FAILURE TO HOSPITALIZE UPON SIGNS OF DEHYDRATION - SEIZURE DISORDER - COGNITIVE DEFICIT.
This was a medical malpractice action in which the plaintiff contended that the defendant pediatrician failed to hospitalize the six month old child presented with fever, vomiting and diarrhea for several days duration. The plaintiff contended that as a result, the child suffered severe dehydration which caused a seizure, which in turn caused hypoxia, leaving the child with a s...
- from The New York Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (34489) Login for A/T/S Verdict
______ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - DEFENDANT, A SURGICAL RESIDENT MOONLIGHTING AS EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSICIAN FOR URGENT CARE CENTER, CHANGES MEDICATION USED TO TREAT EAR INFECTION - ALLEGED DEPRIVATION OF PROTECTION FROM MENINGITIS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDICATION CHANGE - DEATH OF CHILD - EMOTIONAL DISTRESS OF MOTHER.
This was a medical malpractice action in which the plaintiff contended that when the mother and decedent, age approximately eight months, presented to the defendant several days after the regular pediatrician, not a party at trial, had prescribed a broad based antibiotic for the previously diagnosed ear infection, the defendant negligently changed the medication utilizing an ag...
- from The New Jersey Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (31836) Login for A/T/S Verdict
______ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - FAILURE TO HOSPITALIZE UPON SIGNS OF DEHYDRATION - SEIZURE DISORDER - COGNITIVE DEFICIT.
This was a medical malpractice action in which the plaintiff contended that the defendant pediatrician failed to hospitalize the six month old child presented with fever, vomiting and diarrhea for several days duration. The plaintiff contended that as a result, the child suffered severe dehydration which caused a seizure, which in turn caused hypoxia, leaving the child with a s...
- from The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (29768) Login for A/T/S Verdict
______ RECOVERY (present cash value settlement) Failure to perform proper work-up on infant with potential signs of infection - Delay in diagnosis and treatment of Herpes Simplex - Severe Herpes Simplex Encephalitis ensues.
This action was brought on behalf of the female infant plaintiff for injuries suffered as an alleged result of the negligence of the defendant pediatrician in failing to properly respond to symptoms potentially indicative of infection. The plaintiff contended that when the defendant pediatrician was advised by the mother that the infant had developed scabs on her head, the defe...
- from The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (6496) Login for A/T/S Verdict
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