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3.13 Million Dollar Settlement - Failure
to Diagnose and Treat Kidney Infection
Attorney - Ken
Berkowitz
Spring/Summer 2005
Blume Goldfaden principle, Kenneth A. Berkowitz, obtained a $3.13 million dollar settlement on behalf of a 31
year-old woman following her presentation to a Newark Hospital
in July 2000 with complaints of right flank pain, nausea and
vomiting. After a CT scan, she was diagnosed with a kidney stone.
The patient was given IV fluids and, after improving, was discharged
from the Emergency Room with instructions to follow up in the
Urology Clinic the following day. The young woman did not return
to the Hospital the next day and she hid from an ambulance on
the day after that. Plaintiff argued that she did not go to
the Hospital on either of the two days after discharge because
of continuous vomiting, chills and developing sepsis. By the
time she was brought to the Hospital two and a half days later,
the young woman was in septic shock and suffered resulting amputations
of both legs at the knees, and amputations of multiple fingers.
Plaintiff contended that she should not have been discharged from the Hospital due to her vomiting and possible infection.
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Medical
Malpractice
Failure to Diagnose
Failure to Treat
Kidney Infection |
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