Three major problems to note in the story:

- Lack of any low-intensity monitored recovery option. If the kid could just have been sent home to a traditional worrying mother, who'd been told to watch for certain warning signs - then he very likely would have lived.

- Critical shortages of front-line medical staff. (ER nurses especially noted here. But a dishonorable mention to the computer systems that the residents were fighting against.)

- However short our medical system might be on front-line resources to treat patients needing care - once it's lawsuit time, resources seem plentiful.