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
In 2002, Ciciline Reid was a 49 year old grandmother who worked seven days a week as a home health aide. On July 28th, she presented to the Montefiore Medical Center emergency room complaining of swelling on the side of her neck and pain on swallowing that was diagnosed as a sore throat and
On April 14, 2005 Adina Raso, then 14 years old, had two impacted wisdom teeth extracted by an oral surgeon in Stony Brook.
A week or so later, Adina noticed that she was experiencing paresthesia (numbness) and had no sensation or taste on the left side of her tongue and the gums of her lower
Wilbur Rodriguez, a 44 year old postal worker, went to a hospital emergency room in Manhattan at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, January 24, 2009. He complained of shortness of breath that started the day before, fever and chills. He was diagnosed with pneumonia and, after 12 hours in the ER, admitted and assigned a
On August 31, 2006, after his usual morning coffee at home in Staten Island, Robert Messina got up and went outside to drive to work. He never made it past the outside of his car where his wife found him – without his keys, shirtless and confused.
An ambulance was called and the 58 year
On March 25, 2004, Johnson Devadas, a 25 year old pharmacist, consulted with ophthalmologist Kevin Niksarli, M.D. to determine his candidacy for Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis (known as LASIK – a procedure that uses a laser to correct certain vision problems and reduce a person’s dependence on glasses or contact lenses).
Dr. Niksarli evaluated Mr. Devadas
A 31 year old administrative assistant had been feeling right flank pain for several weeks when she was referred to a surgeon who diagnosed her with symptomatic cholelithiasis (gallstones). Accordingly, on March 30, 2009, she underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal surgery) at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She was discharged to home