EL PASO, Tx., October 27, 2025: Last week a judge ruled that a civil lawsuit filed against two doctors and the El Paso Children’s Hospital over the 2019 death of a three-year-old at the children’s hospital can proceed to trial. The civil lawsuit alleging the children’s hospital and doctors Roberto Canales and Rodolfo Fierro-Stevens were “grossly negligent” in the treatment of the three-year-old resulting in her death.
The malpractice lawsuit was filed by David and Mariana Saucedo on August 10, 2020, after their daughter died on August 31, 2019. When the lawsuit was filed, it contained an affidavit by Dr. Thomas C. Mayes attached to it.
In the affidavit Mayes explained that he declined to approve Canales to practice pediatric intensive care at the El Paso Children’s Hospital because he determined that Canales did not have the qualifications to provide intensive care to patients there. Nonetheless, Mayes wrote in his affidavit that El Paso Children’s Hospital officials, including CEO Cindy Stout, attempted to “brow beat” him into giving Canales a waiver…