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Article: Case #2 When a loss at trial isn't a loss: the jury ruled malpractice, but then it provided a surprise to the plaintiff and clinician-defendant.(LEGAL ADVISOR)(cases of medical negligence)
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- Clinical Advisor
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Over the course of his 25 years as a primary-care physician, Dr. G has noted an increase in the recognition of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) as a cause of chest pain. He wondered how many cases of GERD had been treated as CAD before accurate diagnostic testing could differentiate the two. Dr. G was brought into court by a patient who represented a variant of this diagnostic problem.
The patient was a 42-year-old electrician who presented with complaints of substernal chest pain that occurred mainly at night when he was lying down and improved with antacids. Dr. G immediately suspected GERD. He ordered an ECG to check for CAD and scheduled gastroenterologic ...
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...Dr. Sundar Cherala ELGIN -- Like one ... radio spots for Heart Check America, Dr. Sundar Cherala thinks a CT scan looking for calcium in his coronary ... Hospital, took a computed tomographic (CT) scan for coronary calcium at the hospital ...
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