A Fulton County couple is suing Emory University Hospital Midtown and Emory University Healthcare claiming that a lack of treatment at the hospital led to the death of their unborn son.
Crystal Bealing and Joshua McCreary filed the lawsuit in Fulton County court on Aug. 22, accusing Emory Healthcare staff failed to provide medical treatment to Bealing, who at the time was 38 weeks pregnant.
On Aug. 22, 2022, Bealing and McCreary say in their court filing that they’d gone to a prenatal medical exam performed by an Emory doctor, who said that both “Bealing and the baby were fine” at the end of the exam.
Following the exam, Bealing went home and went to bed to rest.
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That evening, the lawsuit says she woke up and took a shower, when she started to “feel sharp contractions in her stomach which caused her so much pain she was unable to stand properly.”
After “crawling” out of the bathroom and calling for her godfather for help, he helped her get dressed and called McCreary.