Opinion ID: 4538751
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Heading: Medical Treatment in Virginia

Text: On May 24, 2013, the decedent was admitted to Clinch Valley Medical Center in Virginia because she was experiencing nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. 1 Dr. Waheed Bhatti (Dr. Bhatti), an agent or employee of Clinch Valley Medical Center, admitted the 1 Because courts take facts alleged in a complaint as true in ruling on a motion to dismiss, the facts here are those alleged in the amended complaint. See Bragg v. Board of Supervisors, 295 Va. 416, 423 (2018). 1 decedent into the center, noting a history of stones in her pancreatic duct and chronic pancreatitis. The decedent had an abdominal CT scan on May 26, 2013, to look “‘for necrotic pancreas.’” Dr. Qasim Rao (Dr. Rao), an agent or employee of Diagnostic Imaging Associates, P.C. (Diagnostic Imaging), read the CT scan results. Dr. Rao noted “pancreatic atrophy with dilation of the main pancreatic duct, calcifications within the proximal duct, no inflammation to suggest pancreatitis and no evidence of bowel obstruction.” That same day, Dr. Bhatti and Dr. Ariel Enrique Rodriguez Pimentel (Dr. Pimentel), an agent or employee of Clinch Valley Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery (Clinch Valley Surgery), examined the decedent and reviewed her CT scan results. The decedent was discharged from Clinch Valley Medical Center on May 28, 2013.