A mother from Pasco County, Florida who
has been identified as Jeanette Gonzalez alleges that negligent doctors who
could have averted the death of her son failed to do so and hence are guilty of
medical malpractice or hospital neglect. However, unfortunately, she claims
that a strange medical malpractice law in the state of Florida is disallowing
her from suing the liable parties and receiving any sort of compensation
for a malpractice claim, as reported by wtsp.com.
In a statement to the press, Gonzalez
was reported as saying that no one could bring back her son and nothing would
ever replace him, but at least she can fight to make sure that the law is
abolished or changed and what happened to her and her son does not happen to some
other innocent family or patient.
Her medical malpractice lawyer was in
agreement with her views and was especially disappointed with the law since it
allowed for negligent doctors and healthcare professionals to get away without
any consequences or punishment despite having negligently failed to have
prevented a completely avertable death had an accepted standard of care been
provided in the case.
Javier
Roldan was born with spina bifida
In this case, Gonzalez’s son Javier
Roldan, 33 years old at the time of his death, was born with a condition known
as spina bifida. Even with such a condition, the boy liked to live life to the
fullest. He had gone to rock concerts, represented the March of Dimes, had
personally met some outstanding baseball players, and had even made an
appearance himself in the half time entertainment show of Super Bowl XXV that
was held in Tampa.
In her allegations, Gonzalez claims that
her little boy had suffered a seizure and died in the hospital and the doctors
were not even aware of it. Apparently, the boy had only approached the hospital
and its doctors since he had a broken leg and had ended up dead only six days
later. In fact the mother further claims that she was able to identify the
symptoms in her son and warned doctors and nurses about it, but they turned a
deaf ear on her and would just leave the room.
She did not have documentation that she
could show the doctors what her son was going through?
Did her son have health insurance? Perhaps
the other patients had health insurance. Hospitals have limited personnel and
time for people who cannot pay and even Medicaid takes about 4 months for
hospitals to get reimbursed.
Unable
to file wrongful death claim due to archaic law
The reason Gonzalez is unable to file a
wrongful death claim and hold the negligent parties liable is because there is
a peculiar law in the state of Florida which disallows people like Gonzalez to
file a lawsuit if the victim who passed away was single and without children or
dependents under the age of 25. Hospital neglect and medical malpractice
attorneys are not too impressed with this law and neither is logic. This law
also affects nursing home abuse cases as well.
Gonzalez says she is going to dedicate
her life to changing this law and ensuring that other people in the same boat
do not suffer her fate in the future and so that negligent doctors don’t walk
away without any punishment.
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If
you are a victim of hospital neglect or medical malpractice, you may
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were guilty or negligent in treating or diagnosing you. However, the only way
you can do this effectively is if you hire a medical malpractice lawyer as soon
as possible.
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