{"id":533,"date":"2013-07-17T15:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/the-medical-profession-has-been-punished-for-killing-a-diabetic\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:02:39","slug":"the-medical-profession-has-been-punished-for-killing-a-diabetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/the-medical-profession-has-been-punished-for-killing-a-diabetic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medical Profession has been punished for killing a diabetic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Lindeman (pictured right) is the Ivy League-educated, Boston-area pediatric pulmonologist and erstwhile blogger (under the alias \u201cFlea\u201d) 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. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via www.canadianmedicinenews.com<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/small><\/p>\n

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.<\/small><\/p>\n

And while the article was written by a Canadian publication, it happened in the good old US of A.<\/small><\/p>\n

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?<\/small><\/p>\n

And I did a bit more research, the doctor in question owns the practice, so yes, I do hold him responsible.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Lindeman (pictured right) is the Ivy League-educated, Boston-area pediatric pulmonologist and erstwhile blogger (under the alias \u201cFlea\u201d) 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}