Jury clears doctor, hospital of fault in death of man, 45
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An emergency room physician and the former Cleveland Clinic Naples were not responsible for the death of a man aged 45, who came for emergencies in 2003 for the treatment, a necklace, the jury decided Tuesday . The court jury of six women consult a little less than two hours before clearing Dr Christopher Hamann, its practice of Naples and doctors rushed to the hospital to death, mistakenly, the complaint filed by Richard Hughes family, after his death, on April 4, 2003. Cleveland Clinic sold and renamed since doctors Regional Medical Center Pine Ridge. Scott Bates, the lawyer for the family, said after the trial that the jury believed Hughes May suffered pain in the chest, but not as significant as it does not rely on a cardiac monitor in services’ emergency. Linda Epstein, a doctor, the lawyer, said Hamann was credible, and on the stand, that his treatment Hughes has been the norm in the treatment provided. The eight-day trial version is centered if Hughes and his wife, Lissa Hughes, emergency personnel said he had pain in the chest, vomiting, abdominal and other problems, and if the hospital has not been neglected and set it to a heart monitor. While waiting times in emergency departments, Hughes’ heart was an anomaly in the rate, it was in the room with a heart and restored. Resuscitation, 1 and 1 / 2 hour, but he suffered brain damage and died the next day. Hughes Defense lawyers had argued that the enlargement of the heart and the cause of death was damage to the heart of the revitalization of the effort and not because cardiac arrest. The defense argued that Hughes and his wife had never said that the staff he had pain in the chest. “Three trained emergency personnel at a distance, talked to Ms. Hughes and her husband (personnel), and asked a lot of questions and makes notes,” said Paul Regensdorf, a hospital in Fort Lauderdale lawyer. “Each of these people trained, they have exactly the same information … Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. ” On April 3, 2003, Hughes Lissa her husband to the hospital NCH North Collier, because he knew at the time that her husband complained of pain still look to the left, North Collier, has been moved to the Cleveland Clinic. A theme of the study was conducted in a drawing slip and Cleveland Clinic about Hughes’ pain and counsel for the appellant argued that he was not in the map of the patient. The use of a mark in the Bulletin was part of a new hospital, but Hamann and other evidence in a medical emergency was to inform. “Dr. Hamann said he had no idea, (plus) until he was prosecuted,” Bates, the lawyer for the family, said when closing arguments Tuesday. “Does sound a little cautious hospital? Why not let you know your doctor.” Bates had between $ 1 million and $ 3 million in damages for Hughes’ widow, and between $ 500000 and $ 1.5 million for each of the three children, the couple. Hughes has worked as a mason before an injury during the year 1998, when his wife was the main breadwinner of the house cleaner. |