Medical News Summary: Doctor wins in misdiagnosis causing wrongful death case
About: Doctor wins in misdiagnosis causing wrongful death case
Date: September 2004
Source: Virginia Medical Law Report
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Virginia Medical Law Report): A woman went to her doctor complaining of weakness, tiredness, fever, shortness of breath and diarrhea. The doctor diagnosed her with influenza. The doctor treated her as such and ordered more tests as well as recommending the patient revisit him within a week. The patient did not follow up with her recommended check up. As her condition deteriorated, the doctor was called and he recommended she go to the hospital where she was diagnosied with pneumococcal pneumonia. The patient’s condition continued to deteriorate and she died of cardiac arrest. The patient’s daughter sued over the fact that she believed his tests should have indicated pneumonia. The doctor retaliated that his tests showed no indication of pneumonia which had developed as a secondary condition to the flu he had initially diagnosed. The jury ruled in front of the doctor.
URL: http://www.vamedicallaw.com/archives/pdf/mlrva/mlrva200409.pdf
Related Disease Topics: Pneumococcal pneumonia, Cardiac arrest, Influenza
Related Symptom Topics: Weakness, tiredness, fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea
Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:
- Misdiagnosis (type of Medical misadventure)
- misdiagnosis and pneumococcal pneumonia
- misdiagnosis and cardiac arrest
- misdiagnosis and influenza
- Misdiagnosis and weakness
- Misdiagnosis and tiredness
- misdiagnosis and fever
- Misdiagnosis and shortness of breath
- misdiagnosis of diarrhea
- misdiagnosis of cardiac arrest
- Malpractice
- malpractice and pneumococcal pneumonia
- malpractice and cardiac arrest
- malpractice and influenza
- Wrongful death
- Malpractice and wrongful death
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