Three physicians accused of failing to promptly treat a patient’s heart condition agreed on March 6 to a $2.35 million settlement in an Ocean County wrongful death suit by the patient’s family, Rabkin v. Varma.
Jonathan Rabkin, 53, went to the emergency room at Community Medical Center in Toms River on Oct. 18, 2013, for sudden-onset upper abdominal pain radiating to the back with associated nausea and vomiting. The attending emergency room doctor, Vikram Varma, ordered a CT angiogram of the chest with contrast, but then cancelled the contrast administration due to concerns about elevated creatinine in Rabkin’s system, according to plaintiff attorney Daryl Zaslow of Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow in Edison.
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