HomeMy WebLinkAbout0562 her condition as that of "alcoholism", without an adequate basis of
symptoms, and recommended that the decedent not be admitted to the
hospital..
11. The Defendant Hospital was otherwise negliqent in the
care, treatment and the management of the decedent in the fol.lowinq
manner: ~ ~ ~
(a) Defendant Hospital failed to employ competent and
qualified physicians and other personnel to properly examine, treat
and monitor injured or a~~.inq patients in the condition that decedent- ~
was in; ~
. (b) Defendant Hospital failed to establish proper
criteria or rules and regulations ~hat its physicians be required
to seek consultation with other physicians or specialists where the
emerqency room physician was unable to properly diagnose or determine
the ailment or inju=y, or alternatively, failed to properly supervise~
and enforce rules and requlations requiring such a consultation ~
under the aforesnentioned circumstances; ~
(c) The Defendant Hospital failed to render the decedent
proper and adequate medical treatment and care for her injuries and
failed to ~dequately and properly supervise and monitor the actions
f of its personnel.and doctors permitted to prac.tice in its facilities;
(d) Defendant Hospital failed to admit decedent as a
patient in the hospital despite the nwaerous visits to thE hospital by
Clsimant's decedent on June 25, June 4, July 6, July 7 and July 8, 1976,
where she displayed symptoms of acute toxic metabolic encephalopathy,
or other serious illness, and where on July 8, 1976, she was diagnosed
by Dr. Emanuel M. Winocur, Indian River Mental Health Center, 800 Avenue
H, Fort Pierce, Florida, as having acute toxic metabolic encephalopathy
requirinq immediate hospitalization, and where, despite the existence
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~ of such symptoms and the above-mentioned diagnosis, said Defendant
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~ hospital did not recomm~end or procure.admission of decedent until
~ July 12, 1976.
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