A doctor Thursday was cleared of charges that he was responsible for the death of former Fox Point municipal judge William Padway, who was felled by a heart attack in 2006, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/91838834.html
Dr. Marc Olsen came out the winner when a Milwaukee County rejected a lawsuit’s charge that he didn’t follow correct procedure when Padway came in for a check-up last fall. Three weeks later, Padway died of a heart attack at age 49 in his home on Thanksgiving.
During the civil trial, the doctor testified that he attempted to get Padway to get additional tests during his visit to rule out heart disease, but that Padway wouldn’t submit to them. Olsen also claimed that he asked Padway to come back in two weeks for another check-up, and that he never did return.
In its lawsuit Padway’s family was seeking $3 million for the loss of the attorney’s earnings and companionship.
Olsen had put Padway, his patient starting in 2001, on special diet when he determined that the lawyer had risk factors for heart disease. In 2005 Padway went to a hospital emergency room with chest pains, but his diagnosis was bad reflex. Weeks later Olsen did more tests, and they also came back negative for heart disease.
Then on Halloween in 2006, Padway came to Olsen’s office complaining of chest pains. The physician gave him a two-week supply of reflex medicine, and told him to come back, according to the Journal Sentinel.
