Mother Loses 11-Year-Old Daughter to a Preventable Medical Error
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Lenore Alexander brought her 11-year-old daughter, Leah, to the hospital for what she thought was a routine surgery. She never could have anticipated the tragedy that happened next. Her 11-year old daughter Leah was killed after being given the wrong pain medication in the hospital.
As the medical system covers up mistakes some doctors made on me, one Dr. with a kind soul explained with sorrow that any doctor that would help me now would lose his or her ability to practice.
Although I have MRI reports that I have osteomyelitis of the mandible,sinus tracts to my face, a cystic lesion in my brain, etc, all doctors (but the one with a heart) tell me that the reports were in error and the sores through my skull and face and the terrible dizziness are nothing to worry about.
its a feeling that never leaves, you wake up tormented over what these demons have done.
I’m going through this now with my mom who has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma. I’m mentally exhausted!!! The doctors: nurses negligence is causing my mom to become weaker and more sick!!
Horrible.
ridiculous in what way?
everyone that has to watch this for an assignment dislike the video..
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So sad! Medical MISTAKES can be eliminated if all medical professionals would pay attention AND DO AS YOU WERE TRAINED! medical personnel who have laziness, carelessness, lack of passion are 3 main reasons!
That is simply not true. The system (and their government cronies) allows for under-staffing, higher patient care loads, etc all to chase profit. For a good look at health care read "An American Sickness". It helps explain how the system became the system.
Clearly you have never worked in a clinical environment. Doctors and nurses do not only take care of patients, they need to work as admin of the system as well. They are the ones running the health system day to day, arranging so many things, calling the porters to pick up patients, filling legal forms, checking the alarm systems, answering phone calls, documenting everything, chasing results, searching missing files… working as admin staff instead of healthcare professionals. On top of that, every time something goes wrong or there is an unsafe situation in the ward (like not having enough staff members) they need to raise those concerns to the high management levels (the non-clinical ones) through endless forms that take forever to fill. Outrageous. There are hundreds of tasks that need to be done everyday, and doctors and nurses are overwhelmed by doing those + taking care of patients + managing the wards + documenting everything that happens just for the sake of legal reasons + everything else. On top of that, they need to track that their competencies are up to date, sending feedback forms to colleagues, obtaining teaching hours on their free time, studying on their free time for next board exams, writing case reviews and proving to their regulatory bodies that their practice is performed in a reflective manner. On top of that the amount of chronic fatigue due to the pressure on the day shifts and the jet lags of the night shifts, the emotional pressure of realising that despite doing their best, patients don’t get the amount of care they need due to how things are designed to be. And then there are the patient’s complaints. Another chapter in this drama. Some of them justified. Many of them simply not, coming from people trying to sue healthcare professionals to get money for free. The consequences are devastating for nurses and doctors: the emotional stress when receiving a complaint or being investigated is enormous. And it doesn’t matter how good they are as professionals, they all fear they might have done something wrong in the past, as there is no way of knowing if it’s a genuine reasonable complaint until later when the investigation is more advanced. And then the lack of staff. Again, another chapter of the drama. Receiving calls from high up management asking them to cover other extra shifts because there’s not enough staff, working more hours a week of what it is even legal to do. Or having to carry 2 bleeps at the same time in one shift. I repeat: 2 bleeps at once. Or being a junior doctor left alone in charge of 3 acute wards with more than 40 patients without senior supervision, just because there are no seniors to cover. It’s mind-blowing. Living like this when you are on your 20’s might be possible. But when you are on your 40’s onwards you don’t have that energy, and also you have a family to take care of and spend time with. Being a nurse or a doctor nowadays is simply a bad career choice, no matter how much you like it. It is poor quality of life for a relative mediocre amount of money that comes with a lot of legal risk and personal sacrifice. Everybody complains about the risk for patients. But let me tell you, it’s also a risk for nurses and doctors. They are the ones being thrown at the lion’s cage being left alone to deal with and sort out everybody’s problems. It’s simply unacceptable that so much is expected from them. This cureless blaming culture needs to stop.
And on top of everything said above, in many non-acute medical wards, it’s the hospital’s policy to not constantly monitor patients. Probably because they don’t want to invest money in buying monitoring machines for each room they have in the facilities.
i couldn't get coverage on what happen to my daughter.