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Baptist Hospital Must Pay Woman $8.8 Million

POSTED: Monday, March 24, 2008

A Jacksonville hospital must pay $8.8 million in a malpractice suit filed by a diabetic Georgia woman who said the hospital did not administer insulin.

The jury awarded the money to Shirlyn Gallagher of Blackshear, Ga., on Saturday.

Gallagher alleged Baptist Medical Center of Jacksonville was negligent for failure to follow a doctor's orders to administer insulin shots and carefully check Gallagher's blood sugar levels.

Her suit claimed her blood sugar spiked and she went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated. She claims she suffers from brain damage.

Baptist said it intends to appeal the decision. It claims her condition was not caused by the hospital's treatment, but her long history of diabetes, recent heart attack and previous stroke.

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