Take two of these and sue me in the morning

This might be a first. After a rocky emergency room experience, William Carvelot took his ER doctor’s advice, called a lawyer and is now suing Belleville Memorial Hospital. And the frank doc, too. Back in 2003, Carvelot arrived at the ER with chest pain and difficulty breathing. He went into ventricular fibrillation and the staff tried to resuscitate him with CPR and defibrillation. No dice: the machine didn’t work. Eventually, he was revived and a bypass was performed. But since the surgery, he has suffered memory loss and various health problems that he attributes partly to the broken defibrillator. He’s filed a lawsuit and claims that his family was told after surgery by the ER doc that the machine was busted and he was without oxygen for a period of time and he should see an attorney. Now that’s fessing up. But we wonder if Carvelot and the hospital were able to sit down before he brought a lawsuit, if indeed the doctor took responsibility. If not, why not?  Read [The Madison Record]