Our clients, the family of a deceased 50-year man, were injured when the defendant emergency physician failed to diagnose and treat the decedent’s pulmonary embolism. Prior to his death, the decedent experienced profound shortness of breath and an unexplained syncopal episode at his home after emerging from his morning shower at 7:30 a.m. He was found on the floor by his daughter and emergently taken to the local community hospital emergency room by 8:00 a.m. At the emergency room, the defendant emergency physician performed a chest x-ray, which was normal, and a brain CT scan, which was normal as well. The defendant physician performed a cardiac enzyme test which returned inconclusive and an EKG, which showed abnormalities that the defendant never noted or saw. Without making a definitive diagnosis, the defendant physician asked another doctor to admit the patient to a telemetry unit at 2:00 p.m. After being taken to the unit and being left unsupervised, the decedent got out of bed to use the rest room and experienced an even more severe syncopal episode causing cardio-respiratory failure. The decedent was pronounced dead at 4:00 p.m. from bilateral pulmonary emboli.
The parties reached a settlement after suit but prior to trial for a confidential amount.
Our client, a 45-year old woman, died when her internal medicine physician failed to diagnose her pulmonary embolism despite the fact that she presented to him three times in a seven day period with complaints and symptoms consistent with pulmonary embolism.
Settled after suit but before trial for a confidential amount.
Our client, a 49-year-old married father of two, died when his the physician failed to diagnose his pulmonary embolism. Despite multiple presentations, the physicians at the defendant medical group failed to properly assess and diagnose the plaintiff’s condition, failed to order necessary and appropriate diagnostic tests and failed to properly evaluate him. As a result, the plaintiff’s deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism went undiagnosed and untreated, causing him to suffer extreme physical pain, emotional distress, and ultimately causing his premature death.
Settled after suit but before trial for a confidential amount.
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