This nurse losing her license is probably warranted. Facing criminal charges is absurd. There is no evidence of any malicious intent; unless you've never made a serious mistake in your job, I wouldn't throw the first stone. Maybe the nurse misunderstood her symptom descriptions, maybe she just made a big mistake and should lose her license and be held civilly liable. But the moment you start throwing medical professionals in jail for messing up (even for serious mistakes) you're going to radically change the health care system and you won't like how it ends up.
Actually, I should add that I'm kind of surprised at people's experiences at not getting enzymes run. Around here most of the ED providers are paranoid about malpractice and will run enzymes on you at the drop of a hat so as not to get sued that .1% of the time it was a MI with nonstandard presentation. It's all about defensive medicine.
Did you read the response that one poster gave about coroner's juries? Apparently these "charges" aren't necessarily criminal charges, but this is just the first step to a lawsuit. It's somewhat confusing and I'm going to have to read up more on it
Perhaps so, but does medical malpractice ever become criminally negligent homicide? No? No matter how negligent?
Just curious.