A Dallas jury has awarded David Fritzgerald $17.5 million in a medical malpractice suit. The suit is the largest ever in Dallas county for a medical malpractice suit. David Fritzgerald lost both his arms and legs when he contracted Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus–more commonly known as MRSA. The suit alleged that had the doctor attending to Fritzgerald treated him correctly, Fritzgerald would not have lost his limbs
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