MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Jury sides with doctor sued for failure to diagnose
On June 12, a jury declined to award damages to the family of a woman who bled to death. Nita Thomas went to an emergency room in Dallas for abdominal pain. Dr. Alexander Gaidarski diagnosed her with low blood pressure and a urinary tract infection and discharged her. Thomas died the next day. Her family clamed that Gaidarski failed to diagnose the actual cause of Thomas’ symptoms. The defense emergency medicine expert testified that the diagnosis was reasonable for Thomas’ symptoms. The defense radiology expert testified that a CT scan ordered by Gairdarski showed no perforation of the inferior vena cava or internal bleeding.
