Local family files lawsuit against St. Luke's, claiming Federal Care Law violations after teen snowboarder death
To stream KTVB on your phone, you need the KTVB app. Example video title will go here for this video IDAHO, USA — A family has filed a lawsuit against St. Luke's Regional Medical Center and others, alleging negligence and violations of federal emergency care laws in the treatment of their 16-year-old son following a snowboarding accident. A copy of the complaint, which was sent to KTVB by Eric Rossman who is a medical malpractice attorney representing the Gonzalez family. In an email to KTVB Rossman said: " In my 34-years of practice, this is one of the more egregious incidences of reckless medical care that I have ever seen.
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According to medical records and interviews, the emergency room doctor called the on-call surgeon 33 minutes after seeing the CT scan results, and after Gonzalez was already on a gurney prepared for an expedited transfer to Saint Alphonsus Trauma Center.