A New Mexico man has won the largest-ever payout of $412 million (Rs 3,490 crore) in a medical malpractice case against the NuMale Medical Center. The jury’s verdict was delivered on November 25. The clinic’s negligence and deceitful misconduct led to irreversible damage to the plaintiff. The jury concluded that because of the clinic’s misdiagnosis, the man had to undergo unnecessary and invasive treatments.
According to metro.co.uk, the now-70-year-old plaintiff visited NuMale Medical Center in hopes of treating fatigue and weight loss in 2017. Instead, he was wrongly diagnosed with erectile dysfunction and given multiple invasive injections every week. The treatments included implanting testosterone pellets, which brought severe physical harm to the patient, according to a lawsuit filed by his attorneys in 2020.