By Carnell Hawthorne Jr., Reporter
A civil trial begins Monday at 9 a.m. in the case of Nathan Scott Hannon, a Live Oak teenager who died November 1, 1999 after being treated at Shands at Live Oak for a severe headache.
Yvette and Richard Hannon, of Live Oak, Nathan’s parents, blame Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics, and its affiliates Shands at Live Oak and Shands Healthcare, for negligence of evaluation and treatment of their son on October 29, 1999 and subsequent failure to advise immediate consultation or treatment with a neurological specialist and immediate transportation on an emergency basis to a facility where their son could have received appropriate emergency care, according to court documents.
The Hannons claim in court documents that the defendants “were aware that the decedent had a shunt in his brain which was necessary to allow fluid to exit his brain so as to prevent excessive pressure in and damage to decedent’s brain.”
Jury selection began Thursday in Live Oak and continued Friday afternoon with the selection of alternate jurors in the case.
The Hannons are suing for damages in excess of $15,000, and on the basis of several other counts including failure of the medical provider to take a complete history of their son's medical condition, evaluation without the proper expertise, failure to make arrangements for emergency transfer, failure of appropriate protocol in treatment, mental pain and suffering, medical funeral expenses and loss of prospective net accumulations of the estate of their son which might have been expected.
Nathan Scott Hannon, a 15-year-old Eagle Scout, well-liked SHS soccer player and high school band member, suffered irreversible brain damage and later died.
