Wrongful Death Suit Filed Over Improper Medication
A man in Canterbury, CT has filed a wrongful death lawsuit for $7 million against a Norwich, CT doctor arguing that his wife died as a result of the dosage of a prescription medication she was given. Richard Gault, argues that Dr. Leslie Domalik’s prescription was too high of a dosage for his wife and as a result she died two days after Dr. Domalik gave her the medication.
Dr. Domalik’s employer, the William W. Backus Hospital, is also named in the lawsuit. The report states Gault found his wife unresponsive; apparently suffering from hypoglycemic shock after taking 6mg of Glimepiride, a drug that is supposed to lower blood sugar. A senior physician adviser stated the recommended dose of the drug should be 1mg per day.
Although this does not appear to be intentional negligence on the part of the hospital or the doctor that administered the medication, it is negligence nonetheless and the lawsuit is warranted. Even if medical professionals do not set out to intentionally harm their patients, unfortunately misuse of medication still occurs. In other cases, medical professionals intentionally give their patients more medication than they may require or do not provide medication to their patients at all. In any case, those that lose a loved one as a result of this negligence deserve to have justice and compensation for their loss.
