By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
Rhonda McCullough, the widow of star-comedian and actor Bernie Mac (nee Bernard Jeffrey McCullough) has filed a wrongful death suit in Chicago against her late husband's longtime dermatologist, The Associated Press reported.
In McCullough's lawsuit, she alleges that a few weeks before McCullough's death in 2008, dermatologist Rene M. Earles failed to recognize signs of respiratory failure in the comedian and kept McCullough at his clinic for several hours instead of calling for an ambulance.
Earles admitted treating the 50-year-old comedian that day, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The doctor stated that McCullough "appeared weak, had a low-grade fever and a rash."
Earles, whose practice is located in Chicago, Illinois, said that after McCullough told him another doctor had given him an injection for a cold, he called that doctor and was told McCullough had been diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs.
Earles, whose practice is located in Chicago, Illinois, said that after McCullough told him another doctor had given him an injection for a cold, he called that doctor and was told McCullough had been diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs.
Earles says he immediately advised McCullough to go to a hospital and that the comedian was taken to one in a chauffeur-driven vehicle.
According to manta.com, Dr. Earles has a private Dermatology practice in Chicago, which employs approximately 1 to 4 staff members. The Web site states that current estimates show the practice has an annual revenue of $500,000 to $1 million.
Bernie Mac, a native of Chicago, died August 9, 2008 of complications from pneumonia after being admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital a week prior to his death. McCollugh, who credited veteran comedians such as Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor as his early influences, suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that he said was in remission since 2005.
McCullough's public funeral was held on August 16, 2008, at the House of Hope Church in his hometown of Chicago with over 7,000 people in attendance. The "Original Kings of Comedy" star was cremated and laid to rest at the Washington Memory Gardens Cemetery in Homewood, Illinois.
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