Medical Malpractice - Birth Injury
$3,250,000 settlement for a newborn because the obstetrician who was supposed to meet the mother in the hospital for an emergency evaluation, fell asleep in the “on call” room and didn’t leave instructions to be awakened when the patient arrived. Unfortunately, the placenta prematurely separated from the uterus starving the infant of oxygen and the sleeping obstetrician allowed that to go on so long that the baby suffered irreparable brain damage.
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