Legal Question in Medical Malpractice in California

staph infection, delayed antibiotics

my husband is currently in hospital, mild stroke due to some internal bleeding, was kept in emergency room for two nights, blood transfusions etc. developed fever 3 days later, and when I expressed concern the doctor kept insisting it was due to alcohol withdrawal, I told him he drinks only lite beer and it had been 6 days, also that he quits periodically and has never displayed withdrawal symptoms, he clearly did not believe me, I asked him if he could put my husband on antibiotics just in case, because I feared infection, and he said he thinks it's not, finally two days later they did some tests and it turned out to be staph infection, now he's been in there 12 days and they can't do anything to determine the problem that caused the stroke, because he has to get over the infection first. His fever spiked to 105, also he had some heart ekg problems after the infection got carried away. All I am getting is the runaround, and they seem to want me to believe he already had infection when he got to the hospital, I get different answers about his situation each time I ask a different doctor, I am worried sick, he seems now like his brain is off, hard to tell, they keep him so heavily drugged on morphine. hes a mess


Asked on 7/23/06, 2:44 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Terry A. Nelson Nelson & Lawless

Re: staph infection, delayed antibiotics

You don't need legal advice, you need medical advice from other doctors, asap.

IF, IF, you obtain from a qualified doctor an opinion that the care was negligent, i.e. 'below the accepted standard of care', then you can consider a lawsuit for medical malpractice. In that case, contact me.

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Answered on 7/27/06, 9:43 pm


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