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Brooklyn Family Sues Hospital for Dad’s Death

A Brooklyn man suffered from a heart attack while at Maimonides Medical Center in 2008 where the hospital staff’s lack of treatment was claimed to be the reason for the 52-year-olds death, announced New York Daily News.

The former resident of Brooklyn, Jacob Goldbrunner, was taken to the Maimonides Medical Center in July 2008 for a cardiac catheterization to prepare him for doctors to assess and treat his heart condition. The medical staff was unable to locate the key to the lab, or find an anesthesiologist to prepare Goldbrunner for the procedure. One doctor working at the hospital didn’t even know where the lab was located within the hospital.

Goldbrunner and his family became worried when their dad was still experiencing chest pain while the physician and medical staff were still unable to attend to him. The family waited to be seen for five hours. In that time, Goldbrunner has a heart attack in the midst of doctors and medical officials.


The family filed a lawsuit against the hospitals doctors last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court. When Goldbrunner and the accompanying family members were walked to the lab inside the hospital, they were shocked to find that the necessary testing could not be done since the residential doctor still didn’t have the key.

The Goldbrunner family filed a lawsuit based on the fact that he suffered a heart attack while waiting to be treated. The lawyer representing the family in this heartbreaking case claimed that by that time Goldbrunner’s heart was in serious condition and required oxygen; medical personnel inserted the tube that was intended to be placed in his lungs into his stomach instead.

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