ST. LOUIS – A patient of a St. Louis medical facility alleges emergency surgery wasn't ordered in time and caused paralysis.
Steven Norbury filed a complaint on Aug. 13 in the St. Louis Circuit Court against Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University alleging a failure to provide adequate, proper and timely care.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that on Oct. 18, 2015, he was brought to Barnes-Jewish Hospital for treatment of a serious infection from a hospital in Illinois. He alleges that despite the signs and symptoms of a serious infection, the defendants failed to provide any antibiotic or appropriate treatment and discharged him two days later. He alleges he was later contacted with instructions to go to his local emergency room after blood cultures grew a staph infection and he did so.
The suit states after receiving further treatment from his local hospital, he was transferred again to Barnes-Jewish hospital in November 2015. The suit states surgery on his spinal epidural abscess was not done until Nov. 24, 2015, after he already suffered paralysis.
The plaintiff holds Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University responsible because the defendants allegedly failed to administer antibiotic treatment and failed to timely order emergency surgery.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks judgment against each defendant in an amount of more than $25,000, plus costs. He is represented by John J. Hopkins of Gori, Julian & Associates PC in Alton, Illinois.
St. Louis Circuit Court case number 1822-CC10977