Medical Legal

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Plaintiff
 Childbirth plaintiff Surgical injuries and repair Cervical epidural abscess Failed Repair of Iliac Artery Perforation Stent Placement Injury Ureters Cut during LAVH
Defense
 Sterilization defense Childbirth defense Ureter injury defense Transitional L5 Vertebra Unstable angina defense

Unstable angina defense

Allegation: ER doctors should have ruled out heart attack in a patient presenting with low back pain
Goal: to prove no relationship between low back pain and cardiac incidents
Solution: exhibits show causes of low back pain, neurological connections between heart and brain, not heart and lower back and comparison of unstable v. stable angina, proving that unstable angina caused her cardiac arrest

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