Richter v. Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Plaintiff Rita Richter’s personal injury action sought damages for the alleged malpractice of certain doctors and of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, asserting that Dr. Seymour Diamond and the Diamond Headache Clinic, Ltd. (hereinafter jointly referred to as Diamond), were negligent in failing over the six-year period during which they were treating her for headaches to diagnose a brain tumor which had to be removed surgically, and that Dr. Edir B. Siqueira, the surgeon who removed the tumor, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the facility where the operation was performed, negligently…