A Florida jury awarded the parents of a five-month-old boy who died of bacterial meningitis $2.6 million this week in a medical malpractice case. In 1998, doctors at a public health clinic in Indiantown failed to diagnose the disease, sending Nicholas Patnode home with only a bottle of aspirin to treat a fever. The infant died two days later. Dr. Stephen Williams, the attending physician, claimed he ordered a blood test to check for a bacterial infection but the results were lost and he did not see them until four days after the baby's death.