A neurologist loses a verdict in a back surgery case. He was in the OR for less than 10 minutes, and didn’t even operate on the patient. He got caught in the crossfire of a shotgun lawsuit. An unfortunate outcome, but the wrong doctor was targeted.
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I assume he can appeal? That’s outrageous.
Unless there are more facts that weren’t explained, that seems like something that would have no problem getting affected on appeal. Why didn’t the judge issue a JNOV (judgment not withstanding the verdict)? It’s amazing.
Hey but there is nothing wrong with the present system of the lowest common denominator on the jury right? What an advertisement for health courts
The connection here is that the part he was involved with is evoked responses of the spinal cord, done to try to avoid problems like this bad outcome. The argument no doubt made was that there was a problem with the technical aspects or the interpretation of the responses, and that’s what this neurologist got himself involved in.
We don’t have all the facts, but we have what may be the determinative facts:
“Fulton County” and “Jury”
There are some good comments in the linked post that people should read.
Ted Frank, and Kevin for that matter, don’t worry about the full story if they can generate a headline that supports their cause of immunity for insurers in Ted’s case and physicians in Kevin’s. That anyone would expect unvarnished facts from tort reform lobbyists or put any stock in their interpretation of a case is the surprising thing.
Frank P is my Neurologist and not a more caring or finer doctor in my opinion. Not my Cardiologist but he sent me for a TEE to determine that I needed a PFO Closure. My Cardiologist suspected this but never mentioned it to me so I suffered a second stroke. I credit Dr P for saving my life along with the help of God. He is a fine man and I am very sorry that a bunch of greedy lawyers would go after this man. I hope this is reversed in the future. S Palmer
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