The Schneider Regional Medical Center in St. Thomas. Photo Credit: ERNICE GILBERT, V.I. CONSORTIUM.
ST. THOMAS — An elderly woman nearing 100 years old has sued the Government of the Virgin Islands for medical malpractice, alleging that a physician at the Schneider Regional Medical Center prescribed an antibiotic despite being warned about her kidney disease, causing severe confusion, skin eruptions and worsening health that eventually forced her to seek medical treatment in Miami.
Jane Johannes filed the civil complaint in V.I. Superior Court this week, claiming that hospital personnel failed to account for her medical history when prescribing Bactrim DS, a combination antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections…