By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
© May 18, 2010

HAMPTON

After the Hampton VA Medical Center denied responsibility, a Chesapeake veteran has sued the emergency-room doctor there who failed to diagnose a stroke that left him permanently disabled.

John Morgan, a Marine veteran, went to the Hampton center Nov. 23, 2008, complaining of slurred speech, unsteady gait and weakness on his left side – what government investigators later described as “classic stroke symptoms.” He was discharged by the physician on duty, Dr. Razaak Eniola.

The next day, he went to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where he was found to have suffered a stroke and was hospitalized for six days.

A subsequent investigation by the inspector general’s office at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs found the Hampton center at fault in the case. But when Morgan filed an administrative claim for compensation, the VA denied liability on the grounds that Eniola was a contract doctor, not a VA employee.

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Tags: failure to diagnose, Hampton VA Medical Center, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Malpractice, Veteran

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