Medical Malpractice Lawsuit-Consumer Alert
As Orlando injury lawyers a recent medical malpractice verdict is another wake-up call for unsuspecting health care consumers. In this case, the patient, a middle-age, active man went to the emergency room after experiencing chest pain and collapsing at his home. At the hospital, the attending doctor prescribed acid-reflux medication and sent him home an hour later. When the patient saw his regular doctor two days later, he was diagnosed with a heart infection. Unfortunately, the patient had neither stomach upset nor an infection. Rather, he had an aortic rupture, a tear in the heart's major artery and died two days later.
The lawsuit highlighted the sad truth that this death was preventable had proper, timely health care been provided. Of course, it took a month long trial, before the jury was permitted to deliberate. Fortunately, the jury agreed that folks are entitled to better health care than what this patient received and awarded the family compensation for the significant economic losses that result when the family bread-winner is taken from them.
As a footnote to this verdict, the state Department of Health investigated the medical care and found no violation of the standard of care. The state closed its investigation more than a year before the medical malpractice trial began. This simply reinforces the importance of health care consumers protecting themselves and when serious injury results-to hold careless doctors accountable for their actions.
