In a decision plaintiff’s lawyer Thomas W. “Tommy” Malone called a “shocker,” a Fulton County jury turned aside claims that a baby was left severely brain damaged because an emergency room doctor was negligent in failing to heed the parents’ warnings that the child might have contracted meningitis.
Instead, the doctor acted on her own suspicions of child abuse and had the parents “forcibly separated” from the child, barring them from the hospital and calling the police, who later determined there was no abuse, said Malone.
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