Huh. Speaking as the malpractice expert, nothing here is particularly surprising to me. I would have to read the actual medical chart to see if the physician erred, but it is not at all uncommon that when a patient presents with chest pain, that a treadmill/stress test is scheduled several days out. It all goes to what symptoms, history and risk factors the patient has. I have had several cases in which a patient comes to the office for this sort of thing, and after an initial workup, we determine it is urgent/emergent and load them into the aid unit and take them directly to the cath lab at the hospital for a stenting. The only thing that made this case newsworthy was the death during the threesome. I am not surprised that the jury was not particularly impressed by that part and reduced the award accordingly.
