$33.8 million in medical malpractice awarded to Miami Gardens family will be paid by the federal government. A judge ruled on Monday that a decision made by a federally employed doctor cause a young mother\u2019s baby boy to suffer unnecceraingly resulting in brain damage.<\/p>\n
Marla Dixon and Earl Reese- Thorton the baby\u2019s parents were awarded $3.3 million \u00a0by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola. They were also awarded $1.1 million for pain and suffering. Judge Scola awarded $21.7 in economic damages and $7.6 million for the boy\u2019s pain and suffering.<\/p>\n
A on-call physician by the name Dr. Ata Atogho was working the government funded community center which provides service to uninsured and undocumented patients.<\/p>\n
Dixon while at the North Shore Medical center has been treated by an experienced labor and delivery nurse named Yolanda McCray. During the case McCray testified that the claims made by Atogho\u2019s were false. She stated he did not offer Dixon a cesarean section in which Dixon declined.<\/p>\n
In a testify by both McCRay and Reese- Thorton they stated Dixon the soon to be young mother yelling, “Just cut me!”<\/p>\n
McCray recalls the baby\u2019s slowed heart rate and Atogho ignoring her request leaving Dixon for another patients delivery. Another claim was that Atogho had been seen on his phone with his financial advisor. On Dec. 2, 2013 when the baby was born he was not breathing and unresponsive.<\/p>\n
“At the anticipated, joyful moment of birth of a crying, bouncing baby, they are instead presented with the dreadful specter of a blue, floppy, lifeless child,”\u00a0according to Scola\u2019s order<\/a>.<\/p>\n The pregnancy was not high risk. Due to lack of oxygen when the newborn was revived he suffered brain damage. A C-section could have prevented the baby\u2019s brain damaged agreed the defense and the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n