On October 26, 2009, when six year old Claudialee Gomez Nicanor was examined by her pediatrician, a test revealed that her blood had an excessive amount of glucose so she was referred to an endocrinologist in Elmhurst, Dr. Arlene Basa Mercado.
Dr. Mercado’s Office (in the basement of her sister’s house)
On July 30, 2008 Raymond Gaspard, then 59 years old, underwent his first colonoscopy. A suspicious polyp was discovered and Mr. Gaspard was referred to a colorectal surgeon who performed a second colonoscopy the next day. The polyp was too large to remove at that time; instead a CT scan was scheduled for five days
On August 25, 2011 Erica Abreu was admitted to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx for an elective Caesarean section.
The delivery, by two obstetrician-gynecologists, took only about 15 minutes and Stanley Pina was born without any complications except for a laceration on his cheek. Mother and child were discharged to home three
On December 3, 2004 Alfonso Marin had just dropped off co-workers at their construction site when he was standing behind his parked van at 172nd Street and Broadway in upper Manhattan and an SUV smashed into him, pinning his left leg against the van and crushing his femur.
Marin, then 40 years old, was
On a summer day in 2004, Robert Wyble was pushing a lawnmower when his legs suddenly “gave out” and he fell to the ground. It happened again about a month later and then frequently in 2005.
Mr. Wyble, then a 42 year old self-employed landscaper, consulted a neurologist who diagnosed his condition as myasthenia
Shannon Reilly was born on November 1, 2002 at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson. Doctors quickly noticed Shannon was suffering seizures and she was later determined to be suffering from cerebral palsy.
In the ensuing lawsuit against the hospital and the obstetrician, Shannon’s parents claimed that her delivery was improperly managed allowing a
Jaelin Sence was born on July 4, 2007 at New York Methodist Hospital (NYMH) in Brooklyn. He was discharged two days later after examinations and tests indicated to hospital personnel he was normal and healthy.
The next day, though, Jaelin began to vomit and show
On October 10, 2004, Donald Schultz twisted his ankle walking up the stairs at work (he was a 36 year old police dispatcher for the City of Tonawanda) and sustained a simple, non-displaced ankle fracture. He was treated at the local hospital with a brace and instructed to follow up with an orthopedic surgeon.
Mr.
On November 4, 2003, Jennifer Luna, then 30 years old and 12 weeks pregnant, consulted her internist because she was not feeling well. The doctor conducted a physical examination and concluded that she had an enlarged thyroid which an ultrasound then confirmed along with the presence of five solid nodules. Ms. Luna was referred to
Bennett Rose underwent three colonoscopies – on January 3, 2003, December 14, 2006 and October 11 2007, each indicating the presence of polyps (which were removed), none indicating any malignancy or cancer. About two months after the third test, though, Mr. Rose, then 72 years old, started feeling unusually weak and tired. He was diagnosed