Personal Injury Law

Parents' Chicago Wrongful Death Lawsuit Accuses Son?s Widow of Cook County Medical Malpractice

The parents of David C. Sorin are suing his widow for Chicago medical malpractice contributing to his Cook County wrongful death. Sorin had been married to anesthesiologist Dava Grundhoefer for six weeks when the tragic fall happened.

Sorin died on August 11, 2008 when he fell from the roof of his residence while sleeping. According to his parent's Chicago wrongful death complaint, Dava Grundhoefer had prescribed sleeping pills that led to the fatal Cook County fall. They contend that even though Grundhoefer knew that sleepwalking is a possible, albeit rare side effect from taking Ambien, and that her husband had been in a car wreck as a result of previous sleepwalking incident, she continued to prescribe the prescription drug to him to help him fall asleep.

Prescription Errors
Prescription mistakes are a common cause of medical malpractice claims. They can lead to serious injuries, health complications, and even death. A doctor may prescribe the wrong medication or the wrong dosage or fail to take into account drug allergies or adverse reactions that can result from taking certain drugs. Or, a pharmacist may fill the correct prescription with the wrong dose, give a customer someone else?s medication, misread a doctor?s prescription, include the wrong instructions with the correct drug, or fail to warn about possible side effects.

Prescription drug mistakes are not the kind of error that a medical professional can afford to make.

Dead sleepwalker's widow sued for prescribing him sleeping pills, Chicago Sun-Times, July 21, 2010

Related Web Resources:
How Common Are Medical Mistakes?, Wrong Diagnosis

Medication Errors Harming Millions, Report Says, The Washington Post, July 21, 2006

Ambien Side Effects, Drugs.com

Full post as published by Chicago Injury Attorney Blog on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).