Hundreds of children wrongly diagnosed with epilepsy or incorrectly treated for the condition by a UK doctor are set to receive compensation after a High Court judge approved a multi-million pound settlement on June 15. Andrew Holton, a consultant paediatrician, was suspended from his post at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2001 after colleagues became concerned about the number of children he was treating for epilepsy. In a case-by-case clinical review of almost 2000 children seen between 1990 and 2001, hospital bosses found that over 600 had been misdiagnosed. Many parents have described how their children were prescribed high doses of anticonvulsants and steroids and suffered traumatic side-effects as a result.
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