Doctors, who failed to diagnose a patient suffering from sepsis in time, are now facing a lawsuit that seeks unspecified damages. The patient, Tabitha Mullings, 32, was left a quadruple amputee as well as partially blind, after suffering from severe sepsis.
In a separate lawsuit, Mullings who is a mother of three, had passed the court officer's exam and was looking forward to a career in the court system. She is also suing the city and emergency medical services and the fire department for $100 million in damages.
On September 14, Mullings was admitted to the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene complaining of serious pain. Doctors diagnosed her as having a kidney stone and discharged her. The following day, Mullings called 911 twice as she was still in severe pain but both times paramedics told her that she did not require hospitalization. It was only when her fiancée brought her back to the hospital that doctors diagnosed a severe septic infection. Mullings was put into a medically induced coma for approximately two weeks. During this time, the sepsis had progressed quite far and she lost blood circulation to all of her extremities. Thus both her hands and feet had to be amputated. She was also left legally blind.
The lawsuit alleges that the two doctors who interacted with her when she first visited the hospital, failed to perform blood tests or complete physical examinations on her despite the fact that she had tell- tale symptoms of nausea, and pain in her right flank.
In her Notice of Claim, Mullings alleges that paramedics failed to follow procedure when they did not hospitalize her after she made two 911 calls within 24 hours.
She is represented by Sanford A. Rubenstein of Brooklyn.
In a separate lawsuit, Mullings who is a mother of three, had passed the court officer's exam and was looking forward to a career in the court system. She is also suing the city and emergency medical services and the fire department for $100 million in damages.
On September 14, Mullings was admitted to the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene complaining of serious pain. Doctors diagnosed her as having a kidney stone and discharged her. The following day, Mullings called 911 twice as she was still in severe pain but both times paramedics told her that she did not require hospitalization. It was only when her fiancée brought her back to the hospital that doctors diagnosed a severe septic infection. Mullings was put into a medically induced coma for approximately two weeks. During this time, the sepsis had progressed quite far and she lost blood circulation to all of her extremities. Thus both her hands and feet had to be amputated. She was also left legally blind.
The lawsuit alleges that the two doctors who interacted with her when she first visited the hospital, failed to perform blood tests or complete physical examinations on her despite the fact that she had tell- tale symptoms of nausea, and pain in her right flank.
In her Notice of Claim, Mullings alleges that paramedics failed to follow procedure when they did not hospitalize her after she made two 911 calls within 24 hours.
She is represented by Sanford A. Rubenstein of Brooklyn.
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