FLORIDA MALPRACTICE
Florida naval hospital sued for medical negligence

October 23, 2008 – A naval hospital in Jacksonville is facing a $17 million wrongful-death lawsuit, the latest of several malpractice cases against the Florida facility over the past several years, the Navy Times reports.

The federal lawsuit is scheduled for trial in June and involves the death of a 58-year-old mother and wife of a retired sailor, who died of a brain aneurism in December 2005.

According to the lawsuit, the woman went to the hospital’s emergency room complaining of severe headaches and showing symptoms of an undiagnosed aneurism, but died at her home a week later, unaware of her grave but treatable brain condition.

Her attorney said that’s because hospital doctors left her MRI scan unread for five days and failed to contact her after determining she had an aneurism. Typically, MRIs are read immediately, but her’s was not, said the lawyer. During depositions, one doctor was quoted as saying her case “fell through the cracks,” the attorney said.

Since 2000, the Jacksonville naval hospital has faced at least 26 malpractice lawsuits involving at least 15 deaths, the Navy Times reported.

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