Our client, a restauranteur in their mid 50’s, was admitted to a New York City with classic signs of severe biliary tract infection including a concerning drop in blood pressure. Our client was prematurely discharged from the hospital without a blood culture, and they wound up in a coma, with a long road to recovery.
Note: This well-known New York City Hospital and one of it’s prominent interventional radiologists refused to make a settlement offer until Fellows Hymowitz Rice acquired world-class experts in infectious disease and hospital discharge protocol.