Failure to treat kidney stone results in sepsis, necrosis – $2,750,000 Verdict 
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Published: January 7, 2013
Tags: Judge Everett A. Martin Jr., Medical Malpractice, Million-Dollar Verdicts, Norfolk Circuit Court
Plaintiff, age 71, began seeing defendant urologist in June 2008. The doctor identified a 6mm kidney stone and told the plaintiff it would pass. The following month the plaintiff went to the emergency room with renal colic, as the stone had shifted and was blocking the kidney’s juncture with the ureter, but then shifted. Over ...
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