Susan A. Capra

Despite risk factors for coronary artery disease, a 56-year-old woman was taken to surgery for a hysterectomy without a pre-operative cardiac consultation. She died of a heart attack shortly after the surgery.

A 22-year-old man who underwent sinus surgery suffers from permanent double vision and a right eye that does not move. During surgery, his right orbital bone was fractured when the doctor entered the orbit with surgical instruments and damaged eye.

Due to the negligence of a midwife and Obstetrician at a Chicagoland Area Hospital, an infant died from severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

Husband and father of two died as a result of doctor’s and physical therapist’s failure to recognize obvious signs and symptoms of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) which ultimately led to a fatal pulmonary embolism. Click here to read more about the case.

Failure to diagnose and treat stroke.

A 63-year-old man injured by negligent bowel surgery and post-operative care.

Death of a 21-year-old woman from failure to diagnose and treat pre-eclampsia during labor.

Woman suffers cognitive impairment after doctors fail to diagnose and treat pulmonary embolism; case settles the day before closing arguments.

Failure to work up chest pain and ischemic heart disease results in cardiac arrest of patient and death two days after emergency room admission.