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Article: Failure of ER Dr. to intubate not proximate cause of death.(Medical Law Case of the Month)
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- Medical Law's Regan Report
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- October 1, 2005
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CASE ON POINT: Hassan v. Begley, 2005 WL 2807424' N.W.2d--IN
ISSUE: Ordinarily Motions for summary judgment for physicians stand on appeal. This case did not!
CASE FACTS: At 9:15 a.m., on August 28, 1996, sixty-seven-year-old Willie Begley wen to White County Memorial Hospital emergency room, complaining of severe abdominal pain. He informed the hospital staff that her had begun to experience the pain the day before, and it continued to worse. The patient also indicated that he was vomiting at home, and that he had not had a bowel movement for four days. He informed the hospital staff that his medical history consisted of chronic obstrtictive pulmonary ...