A Tolland boy’s family has sued his pediatrician, charging that she failed to diagnose his bacterial meningitis, resulting in his losing his eyesight.
The boy, Adam Mlodzinski, and his mother, Katherine Mlodzinski, say the then-7-year-old’s complaints went nowhere when presented to Healthwise Medical Associates, doing business as Vernon Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, and Dr. Judy Huang-Bulger, who has a Manchester office, according to the four-page complaint filed Jan. 9 at Superior Court in Hartford.
Instead of recognizing that Adam had life-threatening bacterial meningitis — an inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord as a result of a bacterial infection — Huang-Bulger first diagnosed Adam with an ear infection, the suit charges.
“The doctor blew off basically the severe headache that Adam had,” said Joel Faxon, the family’s lawyer. “Th