A Jasper County, Missouri, jury awarded John R. Brooks
$550,000 Thursday in his lawsuit against Freeman
Health System and two doctors who treated him. Brooks was working at Milnot Co.’s
condensed-milk products plant in Seneca when he was injured in a
workplace fall on March 27, 2006. Brooks
struck a floor causing rib fractures that went undetected and led to
bleeding in his chest cavity over the next several days resulting in permanent injury to his lungs.
Brooks’ attorney argued Dr. Marzetta Parks missed diagnosing his client with rib fractures because she failed to order a computerized tomography scan, and that she sent him back to work with few restrictions. Medical malpractice experts testified that by the time Brooks was seen by Parks on a follow-up visit April 3, 2006, and the rib fractures were discovered, the pleural effusion in Brooks’ chest had progressed significantly. He was sent back to work with no new restrictions, and a CT scan was not performed for another three days.
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Brooks’ attorney argued Dr. Marzetta Parks missed diagnosing his client with rib fractures because she failed to order a computerized tomography scan, and that she sent him back to work with few restrictions. Medical malpractice experts testified that by the time Brooks was seen by Parks on a follow-up visit April 3, 2006, and the rib fractures were discovered, the pleural effusion in Brooks’ chest had progressed significantly. He was sent back to work with no new restrictions, and a CT scan was not performed for another three days.
For more, see TheJoplinGlobe.
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