HomeMy WebLinkAbout0561 10. The Defendant, JOHN J. WILSON, M.D., departed from
the standard of reasonable medical c.are in the manner in which he
treated the decedent, HETTY JEAN PRIDE, while he was an emergency }
room physician at the Defendant Hospital, between the dates of ~
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June 25, 1976 and July 14, 1976. It is believed that JOHN J. WILSON, ~
M.D., departed from the standard of reasonable medical care in the
followinq aspects: ~ -
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(a) Said Defendant failed to take an adequate medical i
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history of the decedent; . ~ ~
(b) Said Defendant failed to obtain adequate labora-
tory or other diagnostic studies on the decedent or negligently inter- ~
preted the same; .
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(c) Defendant physician failed to obtain needed medical '
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consultation for the:decedent; ~
(d) The Defendant physician failed to consult prior
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emerqency room and hospital recoras of the decedent before treating _ ~
or administering to the Care of the decedent; -
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(e) Defendant physician failed to properly diagnose i
and properly treat the decedent;
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(f) The Defendant physician failed to recommend to
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decedent's family physician and/or staff physician that the decedent
be admitted as a patient in the hospital, despite numerous visits to ~
the Defendant hospital by the decedent~on June 25, July 4, July 6,
July 7 and July 8, 1976, where she display~d symptoms of encephalopathy
or other serious illness, and where, on July 8, 1976, a~ter being sent
to the Indian River Hental Health Center, she was diagnosed there by :
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the staff psychiatrist, Dr. Emanual ~Jinocur,.as having acute metabolic ~
encephalopathy, requiring immediate hospitalization, and where, despite
the existence of such symptoms and the above-mentioned diagnosis, which
was known to Defendant physician the De~endant, JOHP1 J. WILSON, M.D.,
did not recommend to the decedent's family physician or staff physician
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that the decedent be admitted to the hospital, but instead diagnosed
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