McLean v. Liberty Health System

The opinion of the court was delivered by

ASHRAFI, J.A.D.

An undetected infection left a sixteen-year-old boy paralyzed and allegedly led to his death. Plaintiff, who is the boy’s mother and the administratrix of his estate, filed a medical malpractice lawsuit claiming that an emergency medical doctor who treated her son twice within three days should have discovered the *160infection. Defendants contended that the patient’s symptoms gave the doctor no reason to suspect an infection. The jury’s verdict was that plaintiff did not prove medical malpractice.

Plaintiff now appeals, asserting that…