After only 23 1/2 weeks gestation, Zalaya Tart was born prematurely at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx on April 29, 2005. She weighed only 542 grams (1.1 pounds) and was just on the edge of being able to survive.
Zalaya had a host of life-threatening medical problems associated with her extreme prematurity and
Joshua Delgado was born on November 27, 2006 at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. He was delivered by Gloria Murray, a certified nurse midwife. Unfortunately, Joshua suffered a brachial plexus injury at birth and was later diagnosed with Erb’s palsy.
His parents sued claiming that Murray was negligent and caused Erb’s by using
Their traditional potluck dinner on Christmas Eve in 2001 was shaping up to be another wonderful event in the lives of Tom and Lorraine Buckley. As always, Tom had shopped at the local food stores in Warwick, New York and Lorraine prepared the house. A dozen friends arrived, drinks were served and then tragedy began
Susan Skelly-Hand was pregnant with her second child when, on February 25, 1996 at about 12:15 p.m., her water broke and her husband drove her to the hospital in Potsdam, New York. There, she met Jose Lizardi, M.D., the obstetrician who, two years earlier, delivered her first child. At 8:15 p.m. Rachel Elizabeth Hand was
Hermine Browne, a 58 year old nurse’s aide, was experiencing excruciating stomach pain when she went to see her internist on February 17, 2001. The doctor diagnosed her with irritable bowel syndrome and prescribed medication. Unfortunately, the pain continued (and the same diagnosis was made) through March of 2002 when a sonogram and then a
On February 8, 2008, Carol Sokol underwent podiatric surgery for bunions on both of her feet. Her doctor, a podiatrist, performed an Austin bunionectomy, a surgical procedure to excise, or remove, a bunion (a bony overgrowth in the foot that causes the big toe to curve outward).
Here is a short video showing an
On October 19, 2007, Kelly Butterfield underwent a unilateral oophorectomy – laparascopic surgery to remove one of her ovaries.
Ms. Butterfield, a 46 year old unemployed woman from Syracuse, was advised by her doctor that the surgery would be routine, take about an hour and she’d be discharged to home on the same day.
Unfortunately,
Tragedy struck Gualbert Alvarez twice in his young life.
On July 15, 2001, he dove into shallow water and struck his head, causing spinal cord damages, which left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down. He was 24 years old.
Gualbert was rushed to Jamaica Hospital where he was in a coma for three
On September 24, 2000, Thomas Burke fell from his wheelchair and injured his left foot. Mr. Burke, then 57 years old, had been afflicted with progressive multiple sclerosis for 20 years and had been wheelchair-bound since the mid-1990s. A week after he fell, Burke consulted with the first of several doctors about continuing leg
On March 23, 2005, Darnell Backus underwent a donor nephrectomy – (surgery in which a healthy kidney is removed to be transplanted in another person). He did this for his mother who had been suffering from kidney failure and would otherwise have required a lifetime of dialysis.
Left side lateral decubitus position for kidney donor