New York Medical Malpractice

A few months back we reported on a woman who filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Brooklyn Hospital Center for misdiagnosing kidney stones, which in turn left her a quadruple amputee. Now comes the fantastic news of her receiving high end prosthetic hands and legs.

After just two months at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mullings has already mastered the art of walking on artificial legs. Now she’s being fitted for bionic hands that respond to electrical impulses, and she could be released from the hospital as soon as Feb. 3.

The hands have a sensor that will press against her stump and read the impulses generated when she flexes her forearm muscles, activating a motor that opens and closes the fingers. A cosmetic glove matched to Mullings’ skin color will fit over the prosthetic shell, making it look like the real thing.

A Queens, New York woman is filing for medical malpractice after alleged botched deliveries by the Queens Hospital Center of not one, but two of her children. Annemarie Dhana claims that her sons were “yanked” from her during delivery, causing both of them to suffer with ERB’s palsy.

According to the lawsuit, Dhana got care for both pregnancies at Queens Hospital Center, where doctors were aware she had gestational diabetes, a serious childbirth risk factor.

The suit also claims doctors mishandled Dhana’s care from her prenatal stage all the way through the second delivery - when doctors could have prevented the injury with a Caesarean section or other measures.