So state caps on malpractice awards are …useless? ER doc lost in state with $400K cap, $13.5M given to patient

Idaho awards second-largest medical malpractice settlement after a patient has a stroke in the ER | MDLinx An Idaho man was awarded $13.5 million after a local hospital failed to diagnose his stroke for over 12 hours. www.mdlinx.com Did a search and didn’t see this posted here but this seems…horrific. Like what did the ER doc actually do wrong…? “A jury in Ada County, Idaho, has awarded $13.5 million, the second-largest medical malpractice award in the state’s history, to a stroke survivor in a case against a physician from Emergency Medicine of Idaho and... Read more
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