Malpractice Case
A Brooklyn, New York woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Brooklyn Hospital Center for a misdiagnoisis that left her a quadruple amputee. Tabitah Mullings went into the hospital with back pain and ended up a day later with both her feet and hands amputated and blind in an eye.
She was examined, given pain killers and sent home. The next day she returned to the hospital and was diagnosed with a sepsis infection that had already blocked circulation to her hands feet, and right eye. Doctors were eventually forced to amputate her hands and feet, and Mullings was blinded in her right eye.
She remains hospitalized, but hopes to return home in the coming weeks. "My goal is to walk out of this hospital, with my hands and my legs, walking out of here before Christmas, so I can spend the holiday with my beautiful children and family," Mullings told reporters on Friday. Her lawyers maintain that she wasn’t properly screened during her initial visit.
January 26th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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