The family of a man who died from a heart attack has been awarded damages from a doctor who failed to properly diagnose his health problems. Relatives of William Brown sued Dr Alison Smith and her fellow GPs at the Craig Nevis Surgery in Fort William after Mr Brown passed away on January 6, 2011, at the age of 67.
The dead man’s wife, Euphemia - who is now aged 70 and lives in Caol - his children and his brother and sister instructed lawyers to go to the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
They claimed that Dr Smith failed to diagnose that Mr Brown was suffering from unstable angina when he attended at her practice on December 31, 2010.