An article featured by the Boston Globe addresses the very topic of medical malpractice cases, and the extensive amounts of pain and suffering that countless victims and their families are forced to experience for years after their tragic events. One woman, Danielle Bellerose, has walked through hell as a result of her medical malpractice experience not even a decade ago. According to her story, her and her husband John had been doing everything they could to have a baby. they decided that they would do different fertility treatments in order to help Danielle conceive, and nine rounds later they were blessed with the news of twin girls in 2003.

At this time Danielle was 28 years old, and was living in the state of Massachusetts with her husband and working as a nurse. In June of 2004, just 3 months prior to her suspected due date, she began having complications and early one morning her uterus began profusely bleeding. She was immediately rushed to the hospital that early June morning, the doctors performed an emergency cesarean section in order to save the babies. The two girls were brought into the world weighing 3 pounds and they were named Katherine and Alexis.

Danielle noticed that little Katherine was pale and blotchy and after testing they realized that she was expecting severe intestinal complications that are common in preemies. They soon discovered that her bowel was torn and that her blood was acidic and they immediately transported her to the Boston Children's Hospital. In medical history babies like Katherine had little chance of survival, and often died just after a few days. However, in her case the chance for survival was increased to 96% because of the medical technologies and miracles that ware available today.

Unfortunately for the Bellerose family, they had to watch their daughter fight for her life. The doctors attempted to do what they could in order save her and after doing an emergency surgery to remove her colon, they thought it would spare her life. They were very wrong. Doctors continuously performed CPR on this lifeless girl and on June 24, 2004 at 5:22 a.m. she was pronounced dead. The loss of a child is devastating, and yet the Bellerose family's suffering did not end there, everyone refused to answer and of their questions; leaving them wondering about their daughter's death. Time and time again they sought after the medical professionals trying to understand how they did not learn of her daughter's life threatening condition earlier on, doctors and professionals told them they would meet and yet everyone failed to follow through.

The parents finally called the hospital asking for their daughter's medical records, and the clerk claimed that there were no records of her whatsoever; and the family quickly grew suspicious that something was not right. After realizing that the doctors were hiding something, she went to a medical malpractice attorney for help with her case. After some work her attorneys were able to finally locate the medical files and gave them to expert witnesses for evaluation, both a doctor and other medical professionals. The expert compiled a 10 page report on the files without ever talking to the client or the doctors on the case, just going off of the documented medical files. In this file the expert quickly pointed to the fact that these doctors were aware of the growing dangers and failed to act, and her death was caused by the doctors "deviating from the standard care procedures necessary for that sort of complication.

In 2006 the Bellerose family filed the medical malpractice lawsuit again the six different doctors and nurses who were involved with their daughter's medical treatments. The family claims that had the doctors just given her answers in the beginning a lawsuit likely would have never happened, however because they continually sought to cover their tracks it was the only choice her and her husband could make to learn what happened to their baby girl. After countless years of torture for the Bellerose family, in 2011 the court deemed one doctors and a nurse negligently responsible for the death of her daughter and they were awarded a total of $11.5 million, the largest settlement for a medical malpractice lawsuit of the year.

All this family wanted was to hear that they were sorry for what had happened, they only cared that they fully understood the situation so that they can move forward with their lives. Sadly, the hospital and doctors deprived that family of being able to learn about how their daughter died, resulting in years of legal work in order to fight for answers.