You bring your mother to a Queens emergency room in Flushing or Jamaica because her speech suddenly slurred and her left arm went limp in the middle of dinner. A resident checks her vitals, chalks it up to a migraine, and parks her in a hallway bed for four hours. By the time anyone orders a CT scan, the window for the clot-busting drug tPA has closed — and she'll never walk without assistance again. ER stroke misdiagnosis in New York is one of the most devastating forms of m

You scheduled a surgery at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, expecting a normal recovery. Perhaps it was a hernia repair, a hysterectomy, or a colectomy. Instead, you woke up with an injury no one is explaining clearly — a perforated bowel, a severed bile duct, a nerve injury that left a leg weak, or an infection that turned septic. You think you have a malpractice case, and you may be right. However, Nassau County hospital malpractice claims against NUMC follo