Medical Malpractice case against general surgeon and local Chicago hospital
May 06, 2019OUTCOME: $1,385,000
An 81 year old woman entered a local Chicago area hospital with nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. A general surgeon evaluated her in the emergency room and negligently diagnosed her with food poison ... ing and gastroenteritis when in fact she had a perforated bowel and needed surgery. She returned to the same hospital 24 hours later, but by then she was in septic shock and died.
