Dr Lindeman (pictured right) is the Ivy League-educated, Boston-area pediatric pulmonologist and erstwhile blogger (under the alias “Flea”) whose electronic exploits led to a large settlement in a malpractice suit brought against him last year in the case of a 12-year-old who died of diabetic ketoacidosis.
via www.canadianmedicinenews.com
Diabetes Mine has been blogging about families being punished by the legal system for neglecting diabetic children in their care: http://www.diabetesmine.com/2013/07/when-d-parenting-turns-to-neglect-or-so-we-may-think.html and I commented that I knew of one case where a medical practice had been successfully sued for malpractice when they missed the diagnosis of a children. The above article is about that case, and doing a simple search on Dr. Flea will get you quick a bit of information on this.
It happened in 2007, not that distant history, and here is not just one but a WHOLE group of doctors who missed a diabetes diagnosis so badly that the patient died.
And while the article was written by a Canadian publication, it happened in the good old US of A.
What has always bothered me about the case is that the above mentioned doctor has never accepted any part of his blame for the patients death. Yes, he was a pediatric pulmonologist but still, why was this missed?
And I did a bit more research, the doctor in question owns the practice, so yes, I do hold him responsible.
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