Medical Malpractice and Heart attack

Medical malpractice and Heart attack:

Heart attack can simply be misdiagnosed by the patient themselves, mistakenly believing that they have heartburn, reflux, GERD, or some other gastrointestional complaint. Similarly, patients with a history of angina, may mistakenly believe that it's just their angina acting up.

However, heart attacks are misdiagnosed by medical staff too. Heart attack is one of the top five diseases in terms of malpractice dollar awards. Despite how well known heart attacks are, they are still commonly misdiagnosed, particularly in the emergency room. The misdiagnosis of heart attack is particularly likely in less common presentations (e.g. without severe chest pain), or less expect populations (e.g. younger women having a heart attack). Malpractice awards for heart attack typically allege misdiagnosis or mismanaged diagnostic methods or medical tests. Because the outcome of a misdiagnosed heart attack is obviously poorer than a rapidly treated heart attack, the patient may suffer severe consequences. The dollar award for heart attack malpractice is thus typically high.

Medical errors and malpractice for Heart attack: medical news summaries for Heart attack:

The following medical news items are relevant to the medical errors (including malpractice) for Heart attack:

• 76000 pounds awarded when son dies from misdiagnosis of hypercalcaemia
• Death of woman after cosmetic surgery
• Family files wrongful death suit over baby’s alleged death due to negligence
• Hospital sued for undiagnosed heart condition
• Man’s misdiagnosis lead to death
• Man active lifestyle destroyed after suffering a heart attack allegedly because of Vioxx use
• Man seeks $1.5 million damages over wife and unborn child’s death
• Man sues hospital after catheter wrongly inserted causes heart attack
• Medical error in surgery causes debilitating death
• Medical malpractice charge on anesthetist due to asphyxiation during surgery
• Medical malpractice lawsuits could be reduced by doctors being willing to apologise and talk to victims
• Misdiagnosed heart attack leads to young man’s death.
• More Vioxx lawsuits
• Negligence over young boy’s death in hospital
• No damages awarded in wrongful death suit
• Vioxx costing Merck millions
• Vioxx lawsuits to be filed in Britain
• Vioxx makers face another lawsuit
• Woman allegedly dies of potassium overdose in hospital

Medical articles on symptoms:

These general reference articles may be of interest:

• Medical Malpractice
• Medical Malpractice Overview
• Symptoms and Medical Malpractice
• More Medical Malpractice Information
• List of Medical Malpractice Articles
• Medical Malpractice Dictionary

About malpractice:

For a general overview of medical malpractice issues for all diseases, see Medical Malpractice. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, including malpractice-related issues in misdiagnosis, see Overview of Misdiagnosis.