Zoloft - Jury Verdicts

______ VERDICT ON PROXIMATE CAUSE - PSYCHIATRICMALPRACTICE - NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE OF SUICIDAL PATIENT - DEATH FROM SUICIDE.
The plaintiff contended that the defendant psychiatrist, under whose care the 46-year-old female decedent was admitted after attempting suicide through an overdose of medication, negligently discharged her from the hospital after only eight days despite alleged signs that she remained a significant suicide risk. The plaintiff contended that the decedent committed suicide approx...
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______ GROSS VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - NEGLIGENT FAILURE OF FAMILY PRACTITIONER TO PROPERLY TREAT ADOLESCENT PATIENT DIAGNOSED WITH DEPRESSION - FAILURE TO PROPERLY REFER TO SPECIALIST AFTER MONTHS OF TREATMENT WITH ANTIDEPRESSANT MEDICATION WITH NO IMPROVEMENT - SUICIDE ATTEMPT BY SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT LEAVES PLAINTIFF WITH PERMANENT LOSS OF VISION AND FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT - NUMEROUS RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERIES AND LENGTHY HOSPITAL STAYS.
This medical malpractice action was brought by the 20-year-old male plaintiff, who was a high school student in 1996 when he was diagnosed with severe depression while under the care of the defendant general practitioner. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant physician deviated from the standard of care in failing to properly diagnose and treat a major depressive disorder and s...
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______ RECOVERY - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - FAILURE TO CONDUCT EKG WHICH WOULD HAVE DISCLOSED ENLARGED HEART DUE TO LONG-STANDING HYPERTENSION - DECEDENT PRISON GUARD COLLAPSES IN FRONT OF PRISON INFIRMARY - CODEFENDANT PHYSICIAN NEGLIGENTLY FAILS TO USE AVAILABLE DEFIBRILLATOR AND NEGLIGENTLY INSERTS TUBES INTO ESOPHAGUS - DEATH ACTION.
This was a medical malpractice death action in which the plaintiff contended that the initial defendant, a family physician, negligently failed to conduct an EKG, negligently failed to note an irregular heart beat on a Holter monitor and negligently failed to refer the patient to a cardiologist. The plaintiff contended that as a result, an enlarged heart caused by chronic hyper...
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______ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - FAILURE OF FAMILY PHYSICIAN TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT CONGENITAL SHORTENED LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING ARTERY - FAILURE TO REFER TO CARDIOLOGIST - WRONGFUL DEATH AT AGE 40.
The estate of the 40-year-old male decedent contended the defendant family physician was negligent in failing to perform a cardiology work-up or to refer the decedent to a cardiologist.

The decedent died of a heart attack some eight months after voicing chest complaints to the defendant. The defendant's professional association was also named as a defendant in the case on ...
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______ VERDICT p 7 3 Medical malpractice - Alleged failure to protect psychiatric patient from fall - Fall from foot of bed - Hip fracture with surgery.
The defendants in this medical malpractice action included two psychiatrists, a psychiatric resident and the hospital where the plaintiff was treated. The plaintiff alleged the defendant psychiatrists over-medicated the plaintiff and that the physicians as well as the nurses employed by the defendant hospital failed to take adequate measures to prevent the plaintiff from fallin...
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______ VERDICT ON PROXIMATE CAUSE Failure of defendant family physician to follow-up when decedent fails to return for appointment after advising defendant that patient's taking of wife's antidepressant medication is helping depression and defendant provides additional prescription - Death from suicide.
The plaintiff contended that as the 41-year-old decedent was leaving the defendant family physician's office following an allergy treatment, he mentioned that he had been experiencing anxiety and depression and had found that taking his wife's prescription of 100 mg. of Zoloft was helping. The defendant, who did not want the plaintiff to suddenly stop taking the medication, renewed it...
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