Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain-Damaged 4-Year-Old Heart Transplant Recipient
On July 12, 2013, a Washington judge awarded the family of a 4-year-old $15.2 million after a hospital physician prescribed Afrin, an over-the-counter decongestant that was contraindicated for the child because she had had a heart transplant almost four years earlier. The drug error caused the litt[...]