A 2-year-old boy died in a Florida hospital after a doctor negligently deleted a decimal point in his prescription, resulting in the underweight toddler receiving 10 times the dosage of medicine he should have, a lawsuit alleges.

De’Markus Page “tragically overdosed with potassium” on March 3, 2024, causing him to suffer a massive brain injury and forcing him to spend the next two weeks enduring “a horrific and protracted hospital course” on a ventilator before finally being taken off of life support, according to a lawsuit filed by his mother last week.

Mom Dominique Page is suing University of Florida Health and its Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics, as well as the medical staff she claims “fumbled” his treatment, including taking 20 minutes to intubate him after he went into cardia

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