For people whose loved ones have to go to the emergency room at a Minnesota hospital, the expectation is that the patients will come out of the hospital in better shape than when they entered. This did not happen at an area medical center in 2006, and the emergency department physician who attended to the unlucky patient has been found to be partly responsible.
The doctor and the clinic where he worked were the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of the deceased patient. The patient had shown up at a hospital in New Ulm, where he was determined to have a bad case of hives and abnormally low blood pressure.
