Woman Files Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawsuit After Daughter is Born with Hypothyroidism
In Illinois, a woman is suing a number medical care providers for medical malpractice. Anastasia Parker claims that because she was injected with radioactive iodine while she was pregnant, her daughter Taelor Hannah was born with hypothyroidism and will have to undergo medical treatment for the condition for the duration of her life. Parker is seeking a judgment over $500,000 plus costs.
In 2006, Parker underwent a thyroidectomy. She then had to be administered radioactive iodine on more than one occasion. Dr. Wael Girgis and Dr. Mohamed Megahy, however, failed to make sure that she wasn’t pregnant before administering the radioactive iodine injections.
Parker’s Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit contends that as a result, her daughter, who was born on August 3, 2007, was soon after diagnosed with hypothyroidism. The complaint says that because Parker was injected with radioactive iodine while pregnant with Taelor Hannah, the toddler is at higher risk of cognitive deficits, developmental delays, mental retardation, and cancer. Parker also blames the defendants for failing to tell her about the risks of taking radioactive iodine and of not talking to the proper doctors before administering the injections to her.
The defendants in Parker’s Illinois civil lawsuit are Dr. Megahy, Dr. Girgis, Belleville Oncology, Maryville Oncology, and Memorial Hospital.
Doctors are supposed to make sure that anything that they administer to a patient will not cause injury or other harm to him or her. They owe it to all of their patients to provide no less than a certain standard of care, and failure to provide that care can be grounds for a medical malpractice lawsuit if a patient gets hurt, even more sick, or dies.
If your son or daughter is born with an illness, injury, or condition that occurred because your doctor or another medical provider was negligent, careless, reckless, or made a mistake, you also may have grounds to file an Illinois birthing malpractice lawsuit.
Woman treated for thyroid condition sues doctors for not administering pregnancy test, The Record, March 31, 2009
Related Web Resources:
Hypothyroidism in Children, EHealthMD.com
Hypothyroidism, MayoClinic.com
