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Guides from Peter Anderson on the questions patients and families actually ask. Written for non-lawyers, drawn from 15+ years of trial experience.
The $84 Million Fairview Malpractice Verdict: A Chest Pain Complaint, a Missed Cardiac Workup, and What Patients and Families Should Know
A Hennepin County jury awarded more than $84 million against Fairview Health Services after finding that a physician assistant failed to work up a 53-year-old man's chest pain. The man died of a heart attack roughly three months later. Fairview says it respectfully disagrees and is weighing its legal options. Here is what the jury found, the two theories the family used, and what the verdict means for other patients who were told their heart was fine.
Diagnostic Errors: When Hours Decide Whether You Live
Diagnostic mistakes cluster around the conditions where they cause the most harm: cancer, stroke, heart attack, and sepsis. Sepsis is the clearest example. Here is what the evidence actually says about how fast antibiotics need to start and what the medical record has to show.
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