What a Broward radiologist didn’t see on a scan led to a father’s death, state says
A radiologist who worked throughout South Florida is accused of missing an aneurysm on a scan before the patient died, leaving behind daughters ages 2 and 4.
The accusation comes in a Florida Department of Health administrative complaint against Dr. Mark McGehee, whose license profile has a Fort Lauderdale address and says McGehee has staff privileges at North Miami Beach’s Jackson North. He was working at Jupiter Medical Center in Palm Beach County during the alleged malpractice.
A medical malpractice suit filed in Palm Beach County tells the family situation of McGehee’s patient. The lawsuit, filed by the patient’s brother, was settled earlier this year with each child eventually receiving $160,000.
McGehee is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. He was licensed in Connecticut in 1989 and gained his Florida license in 2009. His discipline record is clean in Florida, although his Colorado license has an admonishment letter from the state’s Board of Medical Examiners. His Colorado license remains active, although the address listed is in Gilette, Wyoming.
Emails and phone calls failed to reach McGehee.
Looking at something and seeing nothing?
The complaint says on June 25, 2021, a patient came to Jupiter Medical Center “complaining of a severe headache.”
A CT scan of the patient’s brain and cervical spine were given to McGehee.
“(His) impression noted ‘No acute intracranial abnormality,’” the complaint said. “The scans, however, actually showed a right vertebral arterial aneurysm that was not visualized by [McGehee].
“The aneurysm subsequently produced a subarachnoid hemorrhage that resulted in (the patient’s) death” on July 10, 2021.
He was 44 years old.
McGehee “failed to identify an abnormality on the scans,” the complaint said. “The prevailing professional standard of care required (him) to identify an abnormality in the scans.”
This story was originally published December 9, 2024 at 5:30 AM.
