Medical Malpractice
N/AOUTCOME:
Allegations against an infectious disease physician and a large hospital system that an infant suffered severe permanent brain damage resulting from a failure to timely diagnose herpes simplex encephal ... itis, (a deadly but easily curable disease in young children), a failure to preemptively treat the infant with the drug Acyclovir, and failure to recognize a subtle hypodensity on a head CT scan that could be consistent with herpes encephalitis.
