QUINN, JOHNSTON, HENDERSON, PRETORIUS & CERULO NEWS
Kevin Miller addressed the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Medicine on October 8, 2010. This Faculty Development Lecture was entitled, “Patient Plaintiff Profiles: How to Identify the Litigious Patient.” Also in October, Mr. Miller was a keynote speaker at the Peoria County Bar Association’s professional responsiblity seminar entitled, “Litigation Ethics.”
Matthew Maddox worked on a case in which the plaintiff claimed that our client, an internal medicine specialist, failed to provide prostate cancer screening and failed to refer the patient to a urologist when alleged signs and symptoms of prostate cancer appeared. The patient developed prostate cancer and was treated with surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. He then filed suit against the physician, alleging negligent failure to diagnose. After depositions of many treating physicians and multiple experts, we filed a motion for summary judgment asserting that the evidence would not support a finding that the alleged delay lessened the effectiveness of the treatment the plaintiff ultimately received or that his outcome was worse. The trial court granted the motion for summary judgment.