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Jury Orders Doctor To Pay $10.3 Million

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 2, 2007

WEST PALM BEACH - A jury granted a woman a $10.3 million verdict Thursday, agreeing that an emergency room doctor's negligence caused her husband's premature death.
Nadine Raphael said James Shecter did not administer critical medicine when her 73-year-old husband Harvey arrived at Palms West Hospital on April 10, 2003, clearly suffering a heart attack, her attorney Scott Henratty said.

Another doctor ultimately gave him an anticlotting drug, but Henratty said there's a window of about two hours of when the medication has to be administered. Raphael received medicine more than two hours after he arrived.

Raphael received a heart transplant in 2006 but developed an infection and died a month later. Shecter's attorney, Michael Mittelmark, said he plans to appeal.

Palms West reached a confidential settlement with Nadine Raphael before the trial.

The Associated Press

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