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: Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

Family Blames Doctor for Victim?s Suicide

By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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A doctor who specializes in pain and addition is facing a wrongful death lawsuit. This lawsuit was filed by the family of a former patient who state that the victim became addicted to drugs while under the doctor?s care before he committed suicide. The medical malpractice lawsuit states that the doctor turned the victim into a drug addict through a regular regimen of addictive painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs. The 30-year-old then killed himself with an overdose of pills prescribed from the pain clinic where the doctor works. The victim first sought out the doctor for back pain and was prescribed oxycodone months before the MRI confirmed an injury. The doctor never referred the victim to a drug addiction specialist. The doctor actually specializes in urology despite his advertisements which state that he works in pain and addiction. The doctor?s deception could lead to medical malpractice. To learn more about the wrongful death lawsuit, please click the link.

Full post as published by Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).