Medical Malpractice Verdict in Fulton County, NY
$5,750,000.00 Verdict
Medical Malpractice: Twenty year old wife and mother developed a life threatening infection following the birth of her second child. The obstetricians and nurses failed to recognize the symptoms of infection and discharged her without treatment leading to emergency surgery to remove all of her infected female organs and to create a colostomy.
This 20 year old married lady was cared for by her obstetricians, Dr. Nguyen and Dr. Kaufman, at the Nathan Littauer Community Hospital and Nursing Home in Gloversville, New York (Fulton County). Her delivery was routine and the baby was delivered normal and healthy at 8:25 PM. By 2:00 AM the following morning the mother was experiencing unusual pain. During the next 36 hours her blood tests showed an increasing infection, her pain increased, her entire abdomen became tender and her heart rate became very fast (tachycardia). The doctors and nurses dismissed her complaints as post partum discomfort. Nevertheless, they administered increasing amounts of pain killers including intravenous morphine.
She was again admitted to the hospital the day after her discharge when her husband brought her to Dr. Kaufman because her pain was not being controlled even with the stronger pain killer. It was finally recognized that she had a very aggressive Strep “A” infection and was in septic shock. This young lady was transferred to the Albany Medical Center where surgeons had to remove her uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes in order to save her life. She was given a colostomy (a tube through which feces exits the body) and remained in a coma for two weeks.
Before her discharge, she was started on hormone replacement therapy. However, within 48 hours she developed life threatening blood clots that traveled to her lungs, and she needed to be readmitted to Albany Medical Center for intravenous blood thinners. She remained on medication for one year to make sure the clots didn’t return. As a result, she can no longer take hormone replacement therapy and at age twenty is in menopause. The colostomy was reversed two months later, during her third hospitalization.
This was the largest verdict ever recorded in Fulton County, New York and one of the rare plaintiff’s wins ever in this upstate rural county.
Medical Malpractice: Twenty year old wife and mother developed a life threatening infection following the birth of her second child. The obstetricians and nurses failed to recognize the symptoms of infection and discharged her without treatment leading to emergency surgery to remove all of her infected female organs and to create a colostomy.
This 20 year old married lady was cared for by her obstetricians, Dr. Nguyen and Dr. Kaufman, at the Nathan Littauer Community Hospital and Nursing Home in Gloversville, New York (Fulton County). Her delivery was routine and the baby was delivered normal and healthy at 8:25 PM. By 2:00 AM the following morning the mother was experiencing unusual pain. During the next 36 hours her blood tests showed an increasing infection, her pain increased, her entire abdomen became tender and her heart rate became very fast (tachycardia). The doctors and nurses dismissed her complaints as post partum discomfort. Nevertheless, they administered increasing amounts of pain killers including intravenous morphine.
She was again admitted to the hospital the day after her discharge when her husband brought her to Dr. Kaufman because her pain was not being controlled even with the stronger pain killer. It was finally recognized that she had a very aggressive Strep “A” infection and was in septic shock. This young lady was transferred to the Albany Medical Center where surgeons had to remove her uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes in order to save her life. She was given a colostomy (a tube through which feces exits the body) and remained in a coma for two weeks.
Before her discharge, she was started on hormone replacement therapy. However, within 48 hours she developed life threatening blood clots that traveled to her lungs, and she needed to be readmitted to Albany Medical Center for intravenous blood thinners. She remained on medication for one year to make sure the clots didn’t return. As a result, she can no longer take hormone replacement therapy and at age twenty is in menopause. The colostomy was reversed two months later, during her third hospitalization.
This was the largest verdict ever recorded in Fulton County, New York and one of the rare plaintiff’s wins ever in this upstate rural county.
Labels: child birth, infection, malpractice, medical, strep
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