In a case involving a patient rendered paraplegic due to a failure to diagnose a herniated lumbar disk, the Kaiser medical negligence attorneys of Walkup Melodia obtained a cash and annuity settlement in a confidential amount after Kaiser employees failed to properly evaluate and treat the client for neurological symptoms and spinal cord compression.
On two separate visits, the patient identified complaints which should have resulted in immediate hospitalization and timely decompression surgery, but nothing was done. On a third visit, he again made complaints of neurologic impairment which were ignored. Finally, on a fourth occasion, an evaluation disclosed disk herniation with cord compression requiring emergent surgical intervention.
