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Illinois Family Awarded $23.6 Million for Child’s Brain Injury
An Illinois jury recently awarded a girl $23.6 million after she sustained severe brain injuries during her allegedly botched delivery. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Cook County birth injury lawsuit involved Amita Health Saint Joseph Hospital Chicago. Last month, jurors awarded the girl, now 4, compensation for her pain and suffering, as well as her future medical expenses. The newspaper reported that in 2014, the girl’s mother went to the hospital when she was pregnant for testing and observation following a fall earlier in the day. However, doctors reportedly sent her home and decided on testing later at later dates. Following the event, a few weeks later she returned to the hospital for testing after she was kicked at work (the mother worked as a nursing assistant and a patient allegedly got physical with her). During testing, it was discovered that there were issues with the child’s heartbeat, and…
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Maternal Deaths Occur Due to Poor Healthcare
USA Today recently had an eye-opening investigative story about women who are suffering serious complications following childbirth in the U.S. For a long time, healthcare providers would blame deaths and complications following childbirth on issues like obesity, age or other conditions. However, it has come out statistically that some cases involve medical mistakes and poor care. According to the news outlet, each year, more than 50,000 women suffer serious complications from childbirth and about 700 women die. One of the key takeaways USA Today discovered is that nearly half of maternal deaths and injuries could be prevented or reduced with better medical care. Reporters found that at some hospitals, less than 15 percent of women experiencing emergency events during childbirth received the immediate recommended treatments. These events can include hemorrhaging and complications due to high blood pressure. “As many as 90% of hemorrhage deaths and 60% of hypertension deaths could be…
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Child Suffers Broken Femur During Botched C-Section
WJBK-TV Detroit recently had an alarming story about a child whose femur was broken during birth and a mother who is demanding answers. According to the news outlet, the child was born via C-Section at a suburban hospital and the mother remembers coming out of sedation and the child being yanked out of her. “They started tugging on her, I mean pulling with force,” the mother told WJBK. “I woke up out of the sedation and I asked why are you pulling on her like that, that’s very painful. I never got a response, I never got an answer. The room was dead quiet.” Doctors later determined the child suffered a broken femur. The mother claims after her birth, she did not get to see the child immediately and they took her to get X-rays. Due to the broken femur, the child, who was born in 2017, now has problems…
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