According to the Oregonian, a woman whose premature baby died after an emergency Caesarean section has filed a $1.9 million lawsuit against the doctor who treated her. The woman claims that the doctor failed to give her medication that would have delayed her son’s birth. The lawsuit was filed in the Multnomah County Circuit Court last month. The woman was reportedly 6 1/2 months pregnant in February 2012 when she went to Providence Seaside Hospital with signs that she was in early labor, according to the Oregonian. Testing, including ultrasounds, showed that the fetus had normal heartbeats. However, the woman ended up spending 11 hours at the hospital before she was transferred via ambulance to the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Northwest Portland, which is 74 miles from Seaside. According to her lawsuit, about an hour after her arrival at St. Vincent, an emergency C-section was performed on the…
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Woman Files Lawsuit Claiming Doctor Failed to Give Her Medication Resulting in Son’s Death
April 2, 2014Couple Awarded $50 Million Following Botched Newborn Genetic Testing
March 26, 2014As we reported last December, botched genetic testing is becoming a concern in the medical community when dealing with newborns. According to the Seattle Times, a Washington jury awarded a couple $50 million after its son was born with profound mental and physical disabilities after two providers mishandled a genetic test. The Times reported that Brock and Rhea Wuth were told they had a 50-50 chance of having a child with a defect or a related translocation, so they sought out genetic testing before the child’s birth. After which, their son, Oliver, born in July 2008, was deemed normal. However, after the child was born, the family found out he had genetic defects, which led to disabilities. In a lawsuit, the family said that Valley Medical Center in Renton and Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), based in North Carolina botched a prenatal test prior to Oliver’s birth. According to court…
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