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Baltimore hospital and doctor reach settlement with heart patient in medical malpractice case
July 29, 2008 -- A Maryland woman reached a confidential settlement last week in a medical malpractice lawsuit against her doctor and a Baltimore hospital.
The plaintiff, a resident of Dundalk, filed suit last year in Baltimore County Circuit Court against her doctor and Franklin Square Hospital Center, claiming they did not properly diagnose a serious heart ailment.
According to the complaint, when the woman felt heart attack-like arm pain radiating to her chest she went to see the doctor, who performed an electrocardiogram, or EKG, which he found normal.
The woman then went to the Franklin Square emergency room complaining of continued arm pain. That EKG was also found to be normal. When a second hospital EKG came back abnormal six hours later, a cardiologist was finally called to treat her, according to a report in The (Baltimore) Daily Record.
As a result of this delay, according to the lawsuit, she suffered a myocardial infarction (an interrupted supply of blood to the heart) that caused permanent heart damage that will require future medical treatments and surgery.
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