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Re: $6.5 Million Awarded Over Deadly Infection From: DoctorJoe@aol.com Sun Apr 28 10:26:12 2002 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Twins case part I" Previous message: Joe Cutchin: "Re: Twins case part I" Maybe in reply to: Dean Huffman: "$6.5 Million Awarded Over Deadly Infection" In a message dated 4/28/02 06:56:15, dean@thehuffpeople.net writes: << A Cook County jury awarded $6.5 million Friday to the family of a 49-year-old woman who died in 1998 after suffering a "flesh-eating" infection in Northwestern Memorial Hospital following a tubal ligation. Doctors punctured Lynne Christopher's bladder during outpatient surgery and then failed to diagnose the ensuing infection until it was too late, said Terrence Lavin, the family's attorney. >> So let's see... she STATISTICALLY only had about 2 years left of PREmenopause left. Then they fail to recognize a problem (I wonder which trocar they punctured it with). Still in all, I wonder what the $6.5M was for? Joe P. Next message: Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Twins case part I" Previous message: Joe Cutchin: "Re: Twins case part I" Maybe in reply to: Dean Huffman: "$6.5 Million Awarded Over Deadly Infection"

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