A former journalism student who says Hudson Health Center's mistakes cost her an arm dropped her medical malpractice case against the clinic earlier this week.
Molly Millsop, from Vandalia, sued Ohio University in the Ohio Court of Claims in January 2009. Her attorneys announced they would drop the suit Monday, but the announcement allows them to re-file the complaint in the future.
Neither Millsop's attorney nor representatives from OU returned phone calls for comment.
Surgeons amputated much of Millsop's right arm in September 2007 after doctors twice misdiagnosed her rare flesh-eating bacterial infection, necrotizing fasciitis, as a sore throat, muscle strain and anxiety.
Millsop first went to the clinic at about 1 a.m. Sept. 6, but the center was closed. She returned at about 9 that morning, but doctors ignored her, giving her anti-nausea medication, according to court documents.
She returned at about noon when the pain grew worse in the infected arm, and doctors diagnosed her with anxiety and told her to breathe into a paper bag.
She then called her father, Scott Millsop, who drove two-and-a-half hours to Athens from their home in Vandalia and took her to O'Bleness Memorial Hospital. There, doctors diagnosed her with the infection, and she was airlifted to a Columbus Medical center.
Millsop's lawyer argued in his complaint that if Hudson had properly diagnosed her, she could have kept all or most of her arm. Millsop asked for $25,000 in compensation, a standard amount for the court, as well as damages for pain, emotional harm and loss of future earnings.
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