A woman is suing City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., and physicians who treated her after she contracted an infection requiring several amputations, according to a Los Angeles CBS Local report.
In September 2004, the patient, Janet Garner, went to the hospital for a bone marrow transplant, where she developed pneumococcal sepsis. She subsequently had all of her toes, many of her fingers and parts of both her feet amputated, her attorney said, according to the report.
Ms. Garner claims the physicians did not give her vaccinations that could have prevented the pneumococcal sepsis from developing.
"The hospital and medical staff chose to ignore their own written procedures and did not give her the required pneumococcal vaccinations following the transplant," Ms. Garner's attorney said in the report.
The trial is scheduled to begin March 16, 2015.
Editor's note: A previous version of this article identified City of Hope National Medical Center as located in Los Angeles instead of Duarte, Calif. The story was edited at approximately 12:39 pm CST with the correction.
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