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When 300,000 Units Met Meningitis: Who Stole Andrew's Hearing?
When 300,000 Units Met Meningitis: Who Stole Andrew's Hearing?
The moment a syringe held 300,000 units instead of the prescribed 10,000, a child’s life changed: within hours Andrew convulsed and developed hemiparesis, and by discharge on 24 December 1986 he was profoundly deaf in both ears. How could an admitted thirty-fold overdose and a confirmed case of pneumococcal meningitis both be true causes yet the law refuse to link them?
In this episode, we walk through the clinical timeline, the uncontested negligence, the laboratory confirmation of pneumococcal meningitis, and the legal struggle…
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