{"id":1123,"date":"2013-09-13T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2013-09-08T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T15:03:07","slug":"jury-finds-hospital-doctor-childs-undiagnosed-meningitis-hearing-loss-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/jury-finds-hospital-doctor-childs-undiagnosed-meningitis-hearing-loss-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Finds for Hospital and Doctor in Child\u2019s Undiagnosed Meningitis Hearing Loss Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On June 22, 2006, Raymone Bowe, a 10-year-old boy, was brought by his mother to the emergency department at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nahospital.org\/\">Norwegian American Hospital<\/a> in Chicago with a sore throat, headache and a history of fever and vomiting.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Raymone was seen in the ER by the defendant, Dr. Joseph Mejia, an occupational medicine\/ophthalmology physician.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dr. Mejia diagnosed flu and headache and discharged Raymone with instructions to follow up if his symptoms continued or got worse.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Two days later, at 12:19 a.m. on June 24, 2006, Raymone\u2019s mother brought him to the emergency department at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookcountyhhs.org\/locations\/john-h-stroger-jr-hospital\/\">John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County<\/a>.<span>\u00a0She<\/span>\u00a0reported that Raymone had<span>\u00a0 <\/span>3 days of diarrhea, vomiting and fever.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The complete blood count showed Raymone had an elevated white blood count, but he was still discharged with a diagnosis of a viral syndrome.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Later that \u00a0day, Raymone was taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luriechildrens.org\/en-us\/Pages\/index.aspx\">Children\u2019s Memorial Hospital<\/a>, where he was diagnosed with Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Raymone was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Because of the delay in treating the meningitis, Raymone sustained complete and permanent hearing loss in both ears resulting in surgeries to insert bilateral cochlear implants.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/jury-finds-hospital-doctor-childs-undiagnosed-meningitis-hearing-loss-case\/#more-1123\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 22, 2006, Raymone Bowe, a 10-year-old boy, was brought by his mother to the emergency department at Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago with a sore throat, headache and a history of fever and vomiting.\u00a0Raymone was seen in the ER by the defendant, Dr. Joseph Mejia, an occupational medicine\/ophthalmology physician.\u00a0 Dr. Mejia diagnosed flu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,27,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-errors","category-medical-malpractice","category-misdiagnosis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jury Finds for Hospital and Doctor in Child\u2019s Undiagnosed Meningitis Hearing Loss Case &#8212; 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