A jury returned a verdict for $3 million late Thursday (March 15) for the death of a Country Club Hills woman who died after doctors at St. James-Olympia Fields Hospital sent her home from the emergency room without diagnosis or treatment of a pulmonary embolism.
Tajuana Baker, 48, who had a history of blood clotting went to the emergency room in January, 2000, complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath. Rather than conduct the necessary tests to rule out a pulmonary embolism, she was sent home. She died seven days later from a second massive pulmonary embolism.
