As her testimony was being videotaped, the mother of a 5-year-old Lynbrook girl who died after catching the flu said doctors underestimated the seriousness of her daughter's condition, and one told her shortly before the girl died that she would recover and go home in 10 to 14 days. Lisa Agoado, whose testimony was taped because of a previous courtroom outburst, said her daughter Alyssa's pediatrician, Clifford Butterman of East Rockaway, told her Alyssa's lungs were "clear as a bell" just days before she was hospitalized for double pneumonia in December 1999. After her daughter was hospitalized, doctors at Winthrop-University Hospital told her infectious fluid found around Alyssa's heart was "of no concern," Agoado said.
Posted by Editor at December 4, 2003 11:09 AM