A Florida hospital has been accused of killing a 2-year-old boy with an "exceedingly high" dose of potassium phosphate — 10 times the dosage he was ordered to receive — after staff deleted a "critical decimal point" from his chart, a lawsuit says. The hospital also didn't notice that the boy went into cardiac arrest and waited more than 20 minutes before trying to save him, his family alleges.

"No parent should have to lose a child like this," attorney Jordan Dulcie, of Searcy Law, told Law&Crime on Tuesday about the death of De'Markus Page.

Page's family is suing UF Health Shands Children's Hospital in Gainesville — a teaching hospital for the University of Florida — for "wrongful death medical negligence" in connection with De'Markus' death in March 2024.

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