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$640,000 Jury Verdict for Late Diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Linda Lawson, 55, underwent a CT scan of her thoracic spine after she was experiencing leg and lower back pain. The scan was reported as being benign. Lawson’s symptoms continued and she had a lumbar CT scan 2 months later. The results of the CT were again reported by a second…

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Morphine Overdose Causes Death of Hospital Patient

A 65-year-old woman, we’ll call her Ms. Doe, underwent a successful elective surgery at a California hospital and was later transferred to a private room. The woman was stable by midnight that day, but three hours later nurses found her unresponsive. A code blue was called and despite resuscitation efforts,…

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Coronary Bypass Surgery Claimed to be Unnecessary; Trial Ends with Deadlocked Jury

A Cook County jury was deadlocked after four days of deliberation in a case in which the plaintiff claimed she underwent an unnecessary coronary bypass surgery. Maryann Giannetti was 52 years old when she underwent a stress test at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. She claimed she was suffering “vague”…

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The Issue of Saying Sorry by Doctors and Others Is Not Always an Admission of Wrongdoing

A Tuesday, July 15, 2014 a story in the Science section of the New York Times covered the circumstances in which doctors are faced with a dilemma in practice. They are reluctant to say to a patient or his or her family that they were sorry for a poor outcome…

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$425,000 Cook County Jury Verdict Where Surgery Took Place in Spite of Patient’s Signs of Infection

Louis Davlantis, 58, underwent a left hip replacement. The orthopedic surgeon who did the surgery treated him for an infection the following month. He then followed up with primary care physician, Navneet Singh, M.D., who later cleared Davlantis for a right hip replacement. About 3 months after the second surgery,…

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$2.25 Million Settlement when Hospital Chooses Not to Send Patient to Hospital When Stroke Symptoms Were Obvious

A confidential settlement was reached with a physician for the injuries suffered by a patient after the physician neglected to rush the patient to a hospital. The 44-year-old woman patient suffered from mild hypertension and took birth control pills. After developing a migraine, she vomited violently. The next day the…

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Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Grant of Motion for Directed Verdict in Medical Malpractice Case for Failure to Diagnose Cervical Cancer

In this medical malpractice case, plaintiff Daniel Hemminger sued defendants Jeffrey LeMay, M.D., and his medical practice for damages related to the death of Hemminger’s wife, Tina. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants chose not to diagnose and treat her cervical cancer in a timely fashion, which caused her death…

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$500,000 Cook County Jury Verdict for Death of Patient from Infected Bedsores

  Ethel Bolton had been a resident of Glenshire Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Richton Park, Ill. She was there from 2001 until 2006. During the years 2004 through 2006, she was cared for by internist Dr. Lance Wallace. On July 7, 2005, Bolton had an abnormal albumin level of…

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Dialysis Patient Dies Because of Overloaded Fluids

Katherine Crawford was admitted to Westlake Community Hospital for shortness of breath and hypotension following an arterial venous fistula repair surgery of Sept. 17, 2005. She was 38 years old and was an end-stage renal disease patient. Crawford had been on dialysis for 11 years. Her medical history also included…

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$2.23 Million Jury Verdict for Incorrect Cancer Diagnosis

Maria Lastra-Rico was 45 years old when she underwent a breast biopsy. A pathologist interpreted the test as showing invasive ductal carcinoma; she underwent a double mastectomy with lymph node resection and subsequent surgical reconstruction. She later learned that she in fact had ductal carcinoma in situ, which is noninvasive…

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