{"id":19673,"date":"2014-04-15T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=19673"},"modified":"2014-04-15T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:56:36","slug":"landscaper-awarded-4m-in-medical-misdiagnosis-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=19673","title":{"rendered":"“Landscaper awarded $4M in medical misdiagnosis case”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story, with the hard copy headline, “Agonizing $4 mil goof,” from Dareh Gregorian at the Daily News, is painful.<\/a> For one thing, as a close relative of physicians, I really don’t like hearing about medical malpractice cases. And I especially do not like learning about what reads like a really good, i.e., bad tale of medical malpractice.<\/p>\n

This one will make you wince, despite the $4 million jury award (which might, as I’ve noted previously, be reduced by an appellate court, or the judge). And, indeed, here are the last couple of paragraphs:<\/p>\n

Lange\u2019s lawyer, Craig Fenno, said he plans to \u201cvigorously appeal\u201d the verdict.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe medical judgments and the treatment recommendations made by Dr. Lange were sound and made in accordance with accepted established practice,\u201d Fenno said.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m wondering why Dale Lange, MD, the neurologist in question, did not specifically recommend that his patient, Robert Wyble, get a second opinion, or why Wyble didn’t ask to have a second opinion before being launched into treatments for a disease he didn’t have.<\/p>\n

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This story, with the hard copy headline, “Agonizing $4 mil goof,” from Dareh Gregorian at the Daily News, is painful. For one thing, as a close relative of physicians, I really don’t like hearing about medical malpractice cases. And I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-19673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-medical-malpractice-lawsuits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t