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Article: Family sues after woman skips pills; Are you responsible for a patient's noncompliance? A plaintiff's lawyer will try to convince a jury you are.(Case #3)
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- Clinical Advisor
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Dr. K was a board-certified family physician who operated a suburban walk-in clinic. His approach was to treat simple conditions and refer complicated ones, although he was willing to follow a patient for the long term, once he was satisfied that proper treatment had been initiated. It was a long-term patient with chronic coronary risk factors who involved him in a malpractice suit.
The patient was a white woman with hypertension whom. Dr. K first began seeing when she was 50. She had a history of smoking and high cholesterol, as well as a family history of coronary artery disease. At Dr. K's suggestion, she had an ECG; blood tests, including an assessment of her ...
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... ... administered the medication, Dr. Williams and the patient's wife left. Nurse Laughlin ... have stepped away from the patient to call Dr. Williams. The court noted ... stepped a few feet away from the patient to notify Dr. Williams of his vitals ...
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