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A young man from Pittsburgh who suffered from diabetes developed coronary artery disease and then died of a heart attack. Several weeks prior to his death, medical tests were done which showed he probably had coronary artery disease, but nothing was done about it. He should have had a stent procedure or bypass surgery in… read more
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A middle-aged man from Pittsburgh suffered a heart attack a few months after visiting his doctor and being given a “clean bill of health.” It turns out that the doctor failed to discover that this man had an abnormal EKG with evidence of blocked coronary arteries. (The medical term is “coronary atherosclerosis.”) If the blocked arteries had… read more
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A retired man from Pittsburgh entered the Emergency Room at Mercy Hospital complaining of chest pains. Unfortunately, he sat in the ER for a long time before anyone saw him. By that time, he had suffered a heart attack and had permanent damage to his heart and died a few days later. We filed a claim against… read more
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An Altoona husband and father of two young children went to see his cardiologist complaining about chest pain, but the doctor dismissed the complaints as nothing unusual. Several days later, the man suffered a fatal heart attack after playing basketball. It was determined that he had coronary artery disease all along, and if the doctor… read more
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A husband and father from Altoona suffered a fatal heart attack because his doctor failed to discover that he was suffering from coronary artery disease. This man had undergone stress thallion testing several weeks before his death, but those tests were incorrectly interpreted as normal. In truth, the tests were abnormal, and the man should… read more
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Failure to detect heart attack causing permanent heart damage Recovery for an unmarried, 57-year-old Bedford County truck driver against a hospital Emergency Room physician who failed to detect that he was having a heart attack. The heart problem was eventually detected several hours later by another doctor but by that time the patient had suffered more… read more
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