A Palm Beach, FL, radiologist has been accused of missing an aneurysm on a scan of a 44-year-old man who died of a brain hemorrhage, according to a Miami Herald report.
A Florida Department of Health complaint brings the accusation to Mark McGehee, MD, who at the time of the incident was working at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter. A medical malpractice suit initiated by the patient's brother was settled earlier this year for $160,000.
According to the Herald, the patient presented at Jupiter Medical Center in June of 2021 with "severe headache"; he underwent CT imaging of the brain and cervical spine. McGehee noted "no acute intracranial abnormality" in his report, although the scans "actually showed a right vertebral arterial aneurysm," the Herald said. The man leaves behind two daughters, aged 2 and 4.
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