Significant six-figure recovery

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 been discovered, this gentleman would have had bypass surgery or a simple stent placed, either of which would have prevented the heart attack. Although he survived, he lost a lot of energy as a result of the heart attack. We filed a medical malpractice claim against the cardiologist who misread the EKG, and our attorneys obtained a significant six-figure recovery on this man’s behalf.