Jury Awards $1.44 Million in Medical Malpractice Case
Posted on Apr 11, 2010 3:55pm PDT
A jury has awarded the family of a man who died from sepsis $1.44 million. The jury ruled that the doctor failed to provide the man with proper care. The man had completed several tests that revealed that he was suffering from sepsis, but the doctor though the patient was suffering from some sort of infection like pneumonia, although he did consider sepsis at the time, but did not treat him for it.
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