Two Texas doctors won’t face a lawsuit accusing them of negligence during a patient’s treatment, because a Texas law retroactively requires any suits against medical residents sponsored by a state hospital be dismissed, a state appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
Telicia Owens sued Samuel Pratter and Krista Handyside in 2012 for failing to diagnose her headaches as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. As a result of the mistreatment, she alleges she is blind on both eyes and has suffered pain and mental anguish.
Owen accused the doctors, who were then residents, of repeatedly missing the signs and symptoms of a stroke ...
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