Medical malpractice case involving delayed diagnosis of meningococcemia on 10-year-old boy resulting in quadruple amputation. Plaintiff brought a civil action to recover for the damages caused to the plaintiff by defendants’ medical malpractice when the plaintiff presented to an Emergency Room. The ER staff and doctor failed to provide the plaintiff with essentially any care that he desperately needed to survive his bout of meningitis. Finally recognizing his critical condition, the hospital transferred the plaintiff to another hospital. Despite magnificent efforts by the other hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit, they could not undo the damage done by the delay plaintiff suffered from the defendants’ failure to care for him. Thanks to the second hospital’s doctors, the then 10-year-old plaintiff survived. Had he received fluids and medicines as he should have at the previous hospital, however, he would have had a much different result. He likely would have suffered no amputations at all, or only lost fingers, or toes, or even a hand or foot. But because of the inexcusable delay in treatment at the first hospital, the second doctors were forced to amputate all of the plaintiff’s arms and legs.
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