Key legal question
Whether the negligent omission by the hospital staff was a natural cause of the patient's death
Extracted holding
No. The claimant did not prove that timely hospitalization and treatment would probably have prevented the death.
Extracted reasoning
The court relied on the medical expert's opinion that anticoagulation would have taken time to work and that later fibrinolysis was a desperate measure with very high mortality; the patient's aggravating factors made survival unlikely even with hospital treatment.