Jury Awards $5.5 Million to Family of Connecticut Man Who Died After Doctors Failed to Properly Diagnose and Treat Him

A jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of a Stamford man who, they determined, died after doctors failed to properly diagnose and treat him in September 2018.

The lawsuit states 69-year-old Felix Mejia went to the Stamford Hospital emergency room on Sept. 18, 2018, complaining of diarrhea and abdominal cramping that he had been experiencing over the course of three weeks.

Hospital staff ran some tests on Mejia at the time and discharged him after diagnosing him with “traveler’s diarrhea,” the complaint said.

Read the source article at Stamford Advocate