Boy, 3, has legs amputated after misdiagnosis at UK hospital

A three-year-old boy had both his legs and most of his fingers amputated after doctors wrongly diagnosed a life-threatening infection as common childhood condition tonsillitis.
Reuben Harvey-Smith was taken to A&E at Ipswich Hospital after accidentally burning himself.
When his mum Lou took him back two days later with a fever and sore throat she was given antibiotics and told that her son had tonsillitis.
The following day he was fighting for his life.

He was later diagnosed with toxic shock syndrome, a life-threatening infection caused by bacteria entering the wound and releasing poisonous toxins into his blood.
Reuben had to have both legs amputated below the knee and also lost seven fingers after the infection took hold in July last year.
The hospital trust has admitted liability, and that amputation could have been avoided if the condition were diagnosed correctly and treated earlier.
But Ms Harvey-Smith, from Chelmondiston, near Ipswich in Suffolk, said her little "Mr Positive" refused to let it get him down.
"He came round from the operation and the first thing he did was ask for 'mummy cuddles' and his dinner," she said.
"He looked at his amputated legs and said 'poorly...