Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog

The emergency room of a hospital is supposed to be a place where patients receive care in a timely way for a condition that needs immediate attention and can't wait for the patient to see his or her regular doctor. Recently a patient went to a local hospital and was left waiting in the ER despite complaints of crushing chest pain. This complaint is a clear sign of an impending heart attack, and in Philadelphia,at Frankford Hospital, the patient died before anyone even came to examine him. The whole event was captured on videotape, and showed how the patient was left sitting in the emergency room without any care until he eventually went into cardiac arrest and died. We have represented families of victims who have suffered similar losses, and have tried to get emergency rooms to understand that complaints of an impending heart attack must be taken seriously and immediate medical attention is required. Such tragedies like this should not happen with today's modern medical technology and qualified medical personnel staffing our emergency rooms. When they do, serious and inexcusable lapses of medical attention and care have occurred.