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$1.3 Million Settlement: Misinterpreted Ultrasound Leads to Delayed Diagnosis and Wrongful Death of Six-Year-Old Girl
Rawls Law Group recently reached a $1.3 million settlement for the family of a six-year-old girl who died from a small bowel obstruction. The defendant radiologist misinterpreted an ultrasound remotely and reported the findings as nonspecific, failing to identify massive ascites and bowel abnormalities that plaintiff’s experts opined were clear indicators of ischemia or obstruction. Rather than an immediate transfer for emergency surgery, the medical team followed the radiolo
Feb 91 min read
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