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$4.85 Million Settlement in Failure to Diagnose and Treat Aortic Dissection

Edward Peers was eating dinner with his family when he felt a jolt of pain in his back and radiating chest pain. He was taken to Doylestown Hospital where he was examined by an emergency department physician who ordered two EKGs. The test results were not concerning for acute coronary…

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$1.25 Million Jury Verdict in Failure to Order Timely CT Scan in Aortic Dissection Death Case

Bryan O’Neal Roach, 23, went to a hospital emergency room complaining of chest pain. The physician assistant, Amber Harring, examined him. Diagnostic tests were ordered including an EKG, chest X-ray and bloodwork. Harring later discharged Roach after diagnosing atypical chest pain and febrile illness. Unfortunately, later that morning, Roach died…

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$2.35 Million Settlement for the Death Caused by Failure to Diagnose and Treat Aortic Dissection

Jonathan Rabkin, 53, went to a hospital emergency room complaining of the sudden onset of upper abdominal pain radiating to his back. The attending emergency room physician, Dr. Vikram Varma, ordered a chest x-ray and chest CT scan without contrast. Radiologist Dr. Paul Shieh interpreted the CT scan as showing…

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