Humidity: 62% Pressure: 30.56 in   Judge awards $15M to family
of brain-damaged Snoqualmie girl  Judge awards $15M to family of
brain-damaged Snoqualmie girl SEATTLE -- A judge awarded more
than $15 million Friday to the family of a Snoqualmie girl after
finding that a miscommunication between doctors left her
severely brain damaged.  The case is believed to be one of the
largest medical malpractice awards in state history.  MacKenzie
Briant, now 8-years old, was born with a congenital heart defect
and had a heart transplant shortly after she was born, her
family said. In 2008, when she came down with a respiratory
infection, her mother called MacKenzie's doctors at Seattle
Children's Hospital, where the transplant was done.  A
cardiology fellow who answered the Briants' call consulted with
MacKenzie's physician, Dr. Yuk Law. Law told the doctor not to
recommend Afrin, an over-the-counter nasal decongestant, because
it could put undue stress on the heart of a pediatric transplant
patient, lawyers argued.  The