Brown v. Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital

On October 8, 1975, the plaintiffs filed actions in Rockingham County Superior Court to recover damages for personal injuries and loss of consortium arising out of allegedly negligent treatment received by the plaintiff Martha Brown in the years 1962, 1963, and 1968. During those years the defendant doctors administered the drug propylthiouracil (PTU) to Mrs. Brown as treatment for a hyperthyroid condition. The plaintiff sustained an adverse reaction to the drug which resulted in a drastic lowering of her white blood cell count. The plaintiffs allege that this reaction produced a permanent…