My son was born with a genetic blood disorder and had to have is spleen removed at the age of 7. He takes amoxicillin everyday to fight infections off. He had surgery on his ear to patch a hole in his ear drum. The doctor had made a Rx for antibiotics, but told us not to give it to him when I questioned him about the fact as to whether to discontinue his current Rx for amoxicillin so that he may take the Rx that doctor had prescribed. Three days later he was back in the hospital with a staph infection that was metacillin resistant. Now the doctors are saying that he will need another surgery to repair the hole because the first surgery did not take due to the infection. He also suffers with hearing loss in that ear that was not efident before the surgery. What I am trying to decide is if there is enough damage in a lawyers or a doctors eyes to say that my son has suffered a loss. I know that he has and I have because of the emotional strain of having to go through another surgery.
The doctor was told of my sons condition and about his current use of the Rx and he basically admitted to me that my son had probally picked up the infection at the hospital. Should he be held liable for not Rx him an antibiotic that was stronger. He did not even remember that my son was taking medication until I brought it up to him in post opt. The consulting doctor was not even the one who did the surgery it was his associate. By the was I am getting my son seen at a different hospital where they know of his medical condition. I am not going to let the same doc do another surgery when he messed up and did not Rx a better medication. My son is scared to death and so am I.Then antother surgery may not even take. The first one should have done the job, according to the doc. he had done many and they worked, but he did not do the surgery. This was a routine surgery that turned out to be not so routine. I do not understand why he did not speak with my sons regular doc to be sure.
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