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Pennsylvania Jury Awards $3 Million for Sinus Infection Misdiagnosis

By Mary R. Kennedy

In today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Jury awards $3 million in malpractice suit for sinuses treated with steroids, not antibiotic...The case involved a woman who visited her family doctor's office, reporting having headaches and nasal discharge ? "symptoms consistent with a sinus infection," according to the report.

"But the physician's assistant who saw her failed to make that diagnosis or to prescribe antibiotics. Instead, according to [the patient's] attorney, his client received a prescription for steroids, was told to undergo additional testing and return in a week.

But just five days later, she developed stroke-like symptoms, including facial drooping and disorientation, said one of her attorneys, Stephen Del Sole."

See article online.

Full post as published by Medical Malpractice Law News on November 24, 2007 (boomark / email).