Failure to diagnose leaves woman dead; hospital facing lawsuit
The heart of many medical malpractice cases in New York is the failure to diagnose a condition, which ends up being fatal. One family recently filed a lawsuit against their hospital after a loved one died from a failure to diagnose sepsis.The woman visited the hospital on back-to-back days complaining of a sore throat, but doctors discharged her. They later discovered that she had fatal bacteria in her system, but they did not call the