Death After Failure to Diagnose an Aortic Dissection Leads to $700,000 Jury Award
What Happened An emergency room physician diagnosed a 56-year-old retired FBI agent with a sore throat and sent the man home with a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist. The physician performed no diagnostic tests. Four days later, the man died at his home. After an autopsy identified the man’s cause of death…