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Brooklyn Man Dies Of Heart Attack In Hospital, Family Sues

The family of a Brooklyn man who died on a heart attack at Maimonides Medical Center is suing the Brooklyn hospital for medical malpractice. The family of the man say that he could have survived if not for the multiple medical mistakes by doctors, interns, and other medical professionals in the hours after their father's medical emergency.

The family says that 52-year-old Jacob Goldbrenner went to the hospital with heart problems in July of 2008. As the man's health deteriorated, lab technicians and medical interns struggle to run tests, get results, find lab keys, or locate an anesthesiologist. Goldbrenner suffered a heart attack during the five hours he waited at the hospital for doctors to run tests or perform a life-saving procedure. Even when doctors intubated the patient to help his breathing, the tube missed his lungs and went into his stomach in another act of medical malpractice.

Although the heart attack patient was put in an ambulance and rushed to Westchester Medical Center with the promis of undergoing a heart transplant, he died of his condition two weeks later. His family, including his 27-year-old son Baruch Goldbrenner, believe that his life could have been saved if the staff at Maimonides Medical Center had not caused so many medical errors and so many delays. Specifically, the family believes that if doctors could have found key to the cardiac catheterization lab, their father would be alive today.

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