{"id":1994,"date":"2015-03-12T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2015-03-11T22:05:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T03:05:58","slug":"cook-county-jury-finds-medical-malpractice-death-patient-brain-hemorrhage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/cook-county-jury-finds-medical-malpractice-death-patient-brain-hemorrhage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Jury Finds No Medical Malpractice in Death of Patient from Brain Hemorrhage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General practitioner physician Dr. Ram Thawani was the attending physician for Peter Gates during his hospitalization at Chicago\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southshorehospital.com\/\">South Shore Hospital <\/a>on Oct. 23, 2009. Gates, 57, died from a brain herniation, which is a swelling of the brain, and a brain hemorrhage on Oct. 29, 2009. Gates was survived by his wife and seven daughters.<\/p>\n<p>The Gates family filed a lawsuit against Dr. Thawani claiming that he was negligent in choosing not to order a CT scan of the head, despite complaints of severe headaches with pain, described as level 10 on a scale of 1-10. Gates was also taking a blood thinner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/drugs\/2\/drug-4069\/coumadin-oral\/details\">Coumadin<\/a>, at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant doctor argued that the headaches had waxed and waned and were associated with a fever of recent onset. He also said there was no focal neurological deficits to point to any problem in the brain, and the brain hemorrhage was a sudden event that no surgical intervention could have averted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/cook-county-jury-finds-medical-malpractice-death-patient-brain-hemorrhage\/#more-1994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General practitioner physician Dr. Ram Thawani was the attending physician for Peter Gates during his hospitalization at Chicago\u2019s South Shore Hospital on Oct. 23, 2009. Gates, 57, died from a brain herniation, which is a swelling of the brain, and a brain hemorrhage on Oct. 29, 2009. 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