Suspected meningitis of any cause in a child would motivate a reasonably prudent parent to seek medical attention. The meningitis vs. hypoxia dichotomy is nonsensical; hypoxia can be the result of meningitis. 2/pic.twitter.com/k7NRDQSw0W
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Suspected meningitis of any cause in a child would motivate a reasonably prudent parent to seek medical attention. The meningitis vs. hypoxia dichotomy is nonsensical; hypoxia can be the result of meningitis. 2/pic.twitter.com/k7NRDQSw0W
"Alert to the possibility" that their child had meningitis, but didn't take him to the hospital? (And the false dichotomy of meningitis vs. hypoxia again) 3/pic.twitter.com/oVVRJF2rDS
@IrfanDhalla has already drawn attention to this passage. It is absolutely disgraceful. I have nothing more to add. 4/pic.twitter.com/JwUqn3HCdo
This is not how judges usually write. Also there is no such analysis of the other experts. 5/pic.twitter.com/THhT2VTFRC
It's not "at best tangentially related." If he died of a vaccine-preventable infection, then his death literally could have been prevented by vaccination. 6/pic.twitter.com/hINQO8VXYo
In the earlier trial, Dr. Adeagbo testified that Ezekiel's brain was covered in pus. And what's a more likely incidental diagnosis: empyema (unrelated to viral meningitis) or enterovirus (unrelated to bacterial meningitis and empyema)? 7/pic.twitter.com/LpgABq6rbf
Lymphocytes don't rule out bacterial meningitis. H. influenzae is a rare cause of meningitis because almost everyone is vaccinated against it. Before the vaccine, it was common. Majority of mild cases of meningitis may be viral, but not of fatal ones. Terrible reasoning here. 8/pic.twitter.com/OIdonY3Uwm
Radiologists. Don't. Rule. Out. Bacterial. Meningitis. 9/pic.twitter.com/VrXwE0kEjb
Supportive care is treatment. It usually involves preventing out-of-hospital respiratory arrests. I think the judge may be overinterpreting this point. 95% of meningitis is viral, and 85-95% of that is enterovirus? Really? 10/pic.twitter.com/Hx9KiSOgQj
A reasonably prudent parent would take their child to the hospital rather than trying to learn how to diagnose meningitis from a website. 11/pic.twitter.com/IgGPOliBJa
Forensic pathologist opines that cause of resp arrest was either croup or viral meningitis, although by her own admission, neither is at all likely to cause resp arrest. Is this perhaps stretching her expertise? 13/pic.twitter.com/id66tHkfpe
The forensic pathologist called by the defense decides that he died of croup, and the judge buys it. 14/pic.twitter.com/M88EI1HYaT
Even if you really think the cause of death was out-of-hospital respiratory arrest from croup, hospitalization would have been a great way to prevent that. 16/pic.twitter.com/lZLu4JJhnY
This judgement is a travesty. That is all.
@picardonhealth @ASPphysician @zchagla @AlainnaJJ @DocMCohen
17/17
Ok, one more point. I get that the role of expert witnesses is to advise the court, and that the trier of fact has to interpret their testimony. But that is not what this judge did. His judgement is riddled with his own medical opinions, and he's a terrible amateur doctor. 18/17
Great long-form analysis by @gorskonhttps://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/09/20/ezekiel-stephan-justice-is-denied/ …
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