Brustin and Lundblad, Ltd. Announce Jury Verdict of $2.6 Million for Wrongful Death of Lawyer's Wife.CHICAGO -- Today, a jury awarded $2,600,000 to the family of a 60 year old woman in a medical malpractice Improper, unskilled, or negligent treatment of a patient by a physician, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, or other health care professional. lawsuit against Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. The verdict came after a one week trial in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Cook County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2000, the population was 5,376,741, making it the second largest county by population in the United States (after Los Angeles County, California), and accounting for 43. . Marvin A. Brustin and Milo Milo, athlete of ancient Greece Milo (mī`lō) or Milon (mī`lŏn), fl. 500 B.C., athlete of ancient Greece, b. Crotona. W. Lundblad of the Chicago law firm of Brustin and Lundblad, Ltd. represented the decedent's family. The family's attorneys argued at trial that the decedent An individual who has died. The term literally means "one who is dying," but it is commonly used in the law to denote one who has died, particularly someone who has recently passed away. and her husband were in southern Illinois visiting their son and his family for Mother's Day weekend in May 2004 when she became ill with a fever. While being examined in the Hospital's emergency department on Saturday evening, blood samples were taken and sent to its laboratory to be tested for bacteria. At seven-fifteen on the following morning, Mother's Day, the emergency room charge nurse was told by the laboratory that the blood cultures were positive for bacteria indicating a serious infection. Instead of telling the emergency room doctor of this critical finding, the nurse, pursuant to the hospital's policy and procedure, put the lab report in a folder In a graphical user interface (GUI), a simulated file folder that holds data, applications and other folders. Folders were introduced on the Xerox Star, then popularized on the Macintosh and later adapted to Windows and Unix. In Unix and Linux, as well as DOS and Windows 3. that was placed on the doctor's desk. The lab report sat on the desk for 12 hours without being reviewed by a doctor. In that time, the decedent and her husband drove back to the Chicago area and immediately went to the emergency room of their local hospital because she was not feeling well. The decedent's infection was caused by E-Coli bacteria and quickly worsened due to the decedent's age and diabetes. Despite heroic treatment (Med.) treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case. See also: Heroic , the decedent died the next morning, Monday. The family argued at trial and the jury agreed that the Hospital had a deficient de·fi·cient adj. 1. Lacking an essential quality or element. 2. Inadequate in amount or degree; insufficient. deficient a state of being in deficit. policy because it did not require its nurses to immediately tell a doctor about the positive blood culture report. Had a doctor been told, the decedent would have been called and advised to return to the Hospital before she started driving back to Chicago at 10:30 am. on Sunday. If the call had been made, the decedent would have survived. |
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