By Annie Burris
The Orange County Register
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — The wife of a Huntington Beach man who died of a heart attack has filed a claim against the city saying emergency personnel did not properly treat her husband.
Christine Palmer, 58, called 911 on Oct. 13, 2008, when her husband was experiencing extreme chest pain, labored breathing and numbness in his arm, according to the claim, a precursor to a lawsuit. Medical personnel said Robert Palmer, 51, was not experiencing cardiac arrest, and he was transported in an ambulance to Huntington Beach Hospital without a paramedic, his wife said.
“The paramedic was negligent and left his patient,” Christine Palmer wrote in the May 12 claim. “The paramedic should have suspected heart failure.”
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