Frankie Marie Miller, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of T.J. Miller v. John B. Mullen, M.D., and Titus Regional Medical Center

OPINION

Opinion by Justice Burgess

After suffering complications from an epidural steroid injection, T.J. Miller (T.J.) went to the emergency room where he was treated by Dr. John B. Mullen. Mullen believed that T.J. was experiencing both a heart attack and internal bleeding from the' injection and prescribed aspirin in an effort to treat T.J.’s potential heart attack. After magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the presence of a hematoma,, T.J. underwent emergency surgery, which left him paralyzed. Months later, T.J. became septic and died from multi-organ failure, Alleging that Mullen’s…