Legal Question in Medical Malpractice in New Jersey

failure to diagnose, hospital negligence

My dad was taken to a hospital in NJ on 9/7 for dehydration. He was having abdominal pain and diarhea (which we were told were the side effects of chemo.) My dad was diagnosed with colon cancer at the end of 2005 and had surgery to remove the cancer immediately and was being treated by oncologist for chemo to make sure that the cancer did not travel any further than the wall of the colon. He went for chemo treatment on 9/5 and for 2 days had diarhea that would not stop. My sister took him to Emergency room and they admitted him for dehydration. They hooked him to IV and started getting fluids back in him. Then they started to give him morphine (for pain) even though we told them that he was allergic to morphine! From the time that my dad got the the ER they had him heavily medicated on pain medicine. He started to complain about his throat hurting. They took blood work, cat scans etc... could not sop the diarhea not find out what was wrong. My dad passed away 3 hrs after the DRs told us he was all ok , just need to stop diarhea. Had autopsy and he died from acute hemorragic gastritis... ???? THey kept telling us it was the chemo and cancer. They never loked in his throat and we asked them to !

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