JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Navy doctor admits that if she had just looked at her patient's medical history, the woman would still be alive today.

The Navy made a $1 million payout, after a fatal medical mistake.

Jocelyn Foster died in 2002 following surgery at Navy Hospital Jacksonville.

According to court documents, the surgeon admitted she never read Foster's medical records before she performed a hysterectomy.

Foster was a 46-year-old mother of two when she entered the care of doctors at the Jacksonville Naval Hospital in 2001 because she wanted help with menstrual pain.

Foster's daughter, Cynthia Hess, wants want happened to her mother to be known in hopes that other military families will not have to face this kind of tragedy.

"I want people to be aware that this is not the only family that this has happened to. There are other families out there suffering because these military doctors aren't giving them the care that they need," Hess said.

Medical records and doctor testimony convinced Hess and her attorney, Sean Cronin, that Foster’s death was due to the improper surgery performed by Dr. Cynthia Wilkes, as well as a series of botched operations and the substandard post-operative treatment.

"Our family has been horrified and devastated by this treatment at the hands of Navy doctors and the senseless loss of a person so important to us," Hess said. "

Cronin said he has seen all too many cases like the one surrounding the death of Foster.

"It appears that there is a crisis in military medicine that is only now coming to full light and we hope the Foster case will bring critically needed changes to the standards and procedures practiced by Navy doctors," Cronin said.

As spokesperson for the Navy told the local station that their healthcare accreditation board went to NAS Hospital and decided that they were up to par with current requirements.