Video Transcript
Heart attack misdiagnosis is unfortunately occur, um, I think more frequently than people realize. The most common fact pattern, and we’ve handled cases all over the state, in which a patient presents, they have symptoms which are either consistent or similar to a heart attack, and either the nurses in the emergency department or the emergency department physician doesn’t appreciate the severity or the significance of those symptoms, and the patient ultimately gets discharged. There is an opportunity in which they could have been treated and potentially avoided significant damage to their heart that is lost. And in fact, there was a study done approximately 6 to 8 years ago by Johns Hopkins, in which it was identified that medical malpractice was the third leading cause of death in the United States, which is incredibly shocking and, I think, consistent with some of the cases and the events that we’ve seen in our firm.
