Doctor is not to blame for baby left brain damaged 32 years ago, court finds

Autor: Clare Dyer
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: BMJ. 348:g2970-g2970
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g2970
Popis: A High Court judge has ruled that a hospital doctor was not to blame for a brain injury in a newborn baby 32 years ago that left him with cerebral palsy as well as epilepsy and cognitive, behavioural, and physical problems. Mr Justice Phillips said it was “unfortunate” that Sunita Nagpal and her former colleagues at Queen’s Park Hospital, Blackburn, had had the case hanging over them for so many years, and he commended their care of John Aspinall as a baby. Through his mother and litigation friend, Evonne Taylforth, Aspinall began proceedings in 2012 against the health …
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