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Gateway Regional Medical Center, located in Granite City, Illinois, is the recipient of a 21-count medical malpractice suit for the death of a patient in it's waiting room.
 
Betty Coonrod sat waiting for assistance in the emergency room of Gateway Regional suffering from heart attack symptoms. Despite the urgency, Ms. Coonrod passed away while being transferred to another hospital two days later. Her son, Jerry, claims her death was a result of, "timely...consultation or testing with predictive value in order to rule out a heart attack...".

Gateway and Pfizer sued for $1.1 million.

St. Clair Record - 3/16/2006 7:22 AM

The complaint alleges the hospital failed to seek, in a timely fashion, consultation or testing with predictive value in order to rule out a heart attack, failed to timely transfer and provide means of transport to a more qualified facility for treatment and otherwise failed to provide adequate medical care, personal care, maintenance and treatment.
 
He also is seeking damages from Pfizer for personal injuries, death and economic damages suffered by his mother as a result of he
 
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