Jury awards $5.45 million to Bronx man with a misdiagnosed staph infection

This month a Bronx man who almost lost his life due to a misdiagnosis at Montefiore Medical Center's emergency room was awarded $5.45 million by a jury in a medical malpractice lawsuit the result of which was observed by New York medical malpractice attorneys across the state.

According to the New York Post, on May 1, 2002, Emanuel Badger visited Montefiore Medical Center's emergency room with complaints that he felt "deathly ill" with "headaches, the shakes and fever." Doctors told Mr. Badger that he had a strain of flu and should return home to recover. A few days later, his symptoms worsened and Mr. Badger returned to the hospital's emergency room.

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