Medical Malpractice Cases - Cathey & Strain

A brain damaged baby as a result of birth trauma resulting in cerebral palsy; the doctor and hospital failed to recognize fetal distress and deliver baby by emergency C-section.
The wrongful death of a husband/father after routine appendectomy where the doctor and nurses failed to diagnose and treat post-surgical bleeding resulting in shock and death.
Numerous “V-bac” cases (vaginal birth after Cesarean section). Failure to recognize fetal distress and allow a mother to continue with vaginal birth without performing emergency C-section resulting in catastrophic brain damage/cerebral palsy.
The improper intubation of a trauma patient by EMS crew where a breathing tube was inserted into the esophagus instead of the airway at the scene of accident resulting in death.
The failure to diagnose unequivocal signs of cervical cancer and report to the patient resulting in the death of a young mother in North Carolina.
The failure to remove a chemotherapy port-a-cath, which was left in the patient for several years and migrated to her heart, resulting in significant heart damage.
The over-prescription of a combination of anti-nausea/pain medication for a young mother who had come to the emergency room for the flu, resulting in coma and death.