Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death

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OUTCOME: Settlement

Specific Liability: Failure to diagnose Streptocossus following a positive rapid stress test and prescribe and institute antibiotic therapy. Group A Strep originated in the pharyngitis and spread into ... the left thigh through the blood stream. Antibiotic therapy would have either prevented spread of the infection to the thigh or more likely than not would have eradicated the group A Streptocossus. Plaintiff, age 11, died.