A Philadelphia jury has awarded a 50-year-old woman $12.88 million for injuries suffered when she vomited after her thyroidectomy, resulting in bleeding in her neck that cut off her airway.
According to court papers in Stokes v. Temple University Hospital Inc. , Sharon Phillips suffered catastrophic brain injuries and is now comatose after getting her thyroid removed in June 2008.
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