A jury in Macomb County has awarded almost $10 million to the estate of a 41-year-old woman who passed away after a doctor at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township failed to adequately treat her surgical wound infection.
After more than two weeks of testimony in Macomb Circuit Court in Mount Clemens, a civil panel unanimously decided to grant the victim's husband the judgment after five hours of discussion. The hospital and the surgeon lost in the ruling.
The plaintiff's counsel claimed that after the jury carefully considered the evidence and deliberated for almost five hours, it reached the conclusion that the surgeon had engaged in professional negligence and that the hospital had engaged in administrative negligence. A 41-year-old mother of two adolescents who were highly devout and hardworking was wrongfully killed as a consequence of carelessness.
The alleged doctor was not a worker at Henry Ford Macomb institution, according to the institution. The plaintiff's attorneys claim that Henry Ford Macomb Hospital authorities failed to develop and enforce appropriate safety measures. Experts testified that a hospital's patient safety policies need to be enacted and enforced by the hospital administration. It was initiated in November of this year.
According to the attorneys, the woman had outpatient abdominal surgery at the 19 Mile Road clinic before developing an infection in a surgical incision. She went to the hospital's emergency room after feeling unwell a few days after a follow-up appointment, where it was revealed that she was septic from an infection.
The next day, the accused doctor paid her a visit in the middle of the morning while she was still in the hospital, according to the doctor's counsel, despite there being proof that the surgical wound was the cause of the infection.
According to the announcement, this continued for roughly five days. The hospital's chain of command was never contacted regarding the treatment delay in order to find a quick solution. The patient safety policy wasn't being put into practice. The unchecked infection in the wound only made the patient worse.
According to the plaintiff's counsel, the lady passed away on the sixth day as a result of the inability to clean up and manage the infection for an excessively long period of time.
