The estate of a man who received a heart transplant at University of Chicago Medical Center is suing after the transplant failed and the man died.
According to the complaint, after undergoing a heart transplant in 2005, Clyde Rogers was admitted to U of C for cardiac abrnormalities in September 2007. While waiting for a new heart, Rogers died in October 2007.
The complaint states that U of C was negligent when it, among other things, failed to properly treat signs and symptoms of chronic rejection of the transplanted heart and knew or should have known that the heart was "diseased or otherwise unsuitable for transplantation."
Read the complaint after the jump.
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The estate of a young woman who committed suicide is suing a doctor who treated her for chronic headaches.
According to the complaint, Hilary Waltmire, a minor, was treated for severe and chronic headaches by Dr. Merle Diamond from April 2007 through the date of Hilary's suicide in October 2007. The complaint asserts that Dr. Diamond, among other things, failed to warn Hilary's parents that certain medications she was taking for her headaches could result in an increased risk of suicide.
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A man is suing Stroger Hospital for negligence related to a gunshot wound to his buttocks.
Plaintiff John Davis states in the complaint that the hospital and certain doctors also named as defendants were negligent in the following ways:
- Failed to administer antibiotics to the plaintiff for a period of eleven (11) days following admission to the hospital, despite the presence of a bowel perforation, a bone fracture and a long unexplored bullet path
- Failure to administer proper broad-spectrum antibiotics that are required for a bowel-penetrating gunshot for a period of seventeen (17) days following admission to the hospital
- Allowed the plaintiff's fasciotomy sites to become infected with hospital bacteria.
Other acts are listed. To read the complaint, click here.
A complaint was filed today against Christ Memorial Hospital and an unnamed doctor by a man who claims the doctor removed only 7 of 8 brackets inserted in the man's mouth after a broken jaw.
Scottie Paul Smith, representing himself, states in the complaint that in June of 2007 he woke up in Christ Memorial Hospital with his "mouth shut closed" because of a broken jaw. He was told to see the unnamed doctor for follow-ups, which he did, and when he experienced pain in his jaw after having the brackets removed, he assumed it was a result of his injury. However, as stated in the complaint, Smith "just now noticed it's a bracket left in my mouth."
Smith is seeking $1.2 million in damages.
To view the complaint, click here.
A father is suing Advocate Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Hinsdale and Dr. Tareyk S. Husayni for medical negligence, wrongful death, inappropriate medication and a survival action in the death of his infant son.
According to the complaint, on May 16, 2008, parents Eli J. Haig and Polla Haig brought their son Eli G. Haig to Hinsdale Hospital at the direction of Dr. Husayni, an agent and employee Advocate Christ Hospital.
Dr. Husayni advised the ER doctor at Hinsdale to give Eli G. Haig fluids intravenously and to administer Versed.
Versed was then given nasally to the infant.
Infant Eli died thereafter, survived by his mother, father and twin sister Francesca.
To read the complaint, click here.
