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Judge awards $8.6M in Scott air base malpractice case
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:56 pm
by 308Mike
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Judge awards $8.6M in Scott malpractice case
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 20:51:59 EST
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A judge says the U.S. government must pay $8.6 million in damages over a Scott Air Force Base doctor’s misdiagnosis of flesh-eating bacteria.
Jean Phillips is the former wife of an Air Force captain. She filed suit in 2005.
In 2002, she went to the base emergency room for pain and swelling in her right arm.
Court documents say Dr. Daniel MacAlpine believed the woman was an addict looking for prescription drugs and told her to go home and take Motrin.
Weeks later, Phillips was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria.
A bench trial was held in August. In a decision late last month, Federal Magistrate Judge Philip Frazier faulted MacAlpine and wrote Phillips suffers “continuous, debilitating pain.”
Messages left Tuesday for Phillips and MacAlpine’s attorneys weren’t immediately returned.
Re: Judge awards $8.6M in Scott air base malpractice case
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:35 pm
by Jered
Military doctors tell everyone to take Motrin.
Re: Judge awards $8.6M in Scott air base malpractice case
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:41 pm
by Catbird
When I was in, there was a rumor that the TMC's, (troop medical clinics), had symptom flow chart books for diagnosing maladies. The joke was that all the flow chart lines led to two treatments:
Above the Waist: Motrin
Below the Waist: Foot Powder
Re: Judge awards $8.6M in Scott air base malpractice case
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:17 pm
by mekender
is that the .mil version of Robitussin?
Re: Judge awards $8.6M in Scott air base malpractice case
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:48 am
by cu74
Back when I was in, (just after the Bronze Age) the standard Navy sick bay statement was, "Take two APCs**, soak it, and don't walk on it for 24 hours" - no matter what the ailment.
** APC = All Purpose Capsule, AKA Aspirin
Re: Judge awards $8.6M in Scott air base malpractice case
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:50 am
by Wrenchbender1
mekender wrote:is that the .mil version of Robitussin?
Vitamin "M" is like the Obama of the military medicine cabinet. The Doc's swear up and down that it will fix everything but in reality it doesn't do much.
Re: Judge awards $8.6M in Scott air base malpractice case
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:38 pm
by SoupOrMan
Wow. They give out Motrin now? We always got Tylenol-III.