Physician negligence leads to unnecessary death of 70-year-old dentist. CMS&C helps victim's decedent find closure with $400,000 recovery.
This case involves a negligent primary care physician and his deceased patient. The physician failed to notify the patient - a 70-year-old semi-retired dentist - of abnormal blood test results after a routine physical exam and blood analysis.
Although the lab results clearly revealed elevated prostrate specific antigen (PSA), the physician did not discuss the results - or its potential dangers - with his patient. Three years later, the patient was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and died shortly thereafter.
The physician claimed he had discussed the problematic PSA levels with his patient and that the patient informed him that he would monitor his condition. However, the physician could not produce any evidence of the discussion with his patient.
CMS&C represented the patient's decedent in a malpractice case. The Plaintiff contended that the physician failed to refer the patient to a specialist or schedule the patient for follow-up tests. The physician, the Plaintiff argued, did not provide the standard of care required by a primary care physician who discovered abnormal blood test results. Since three years passed between the discovery of abnormal blood test results in the patient and the formal diagnosis of terminal prostate cancer, the Plaintiff contended that early intervention would have prevented the patient's death.
CMS&C helped the Plaintiff settle the malpractice case for $400,000 without mediation.
