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Litigation

Feb. 1, 2001

Dueling Diagnoses

Michael McDonough was born with a brain infection four years before implementation of obstetrical guidelines to prevent complications from just this type of injury. But it was more than bad luck, though, that he wasn't properly diagnosed in June 1989, and attorney Edward J. Nevin proved it. A San Francisco jury found that baby McDonough's caregivers at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center fell below the standards

        No. 8 of the 10 Largest Verdicts of 2000
        
        By Rebecca Kuzins
        
        Michael McDonough was born with a brain infection four years before implementation of obstetrical guidelines to prevent complications fro...

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