I'm a living example of non-death mistakes. It took 5 doctors 4 weeks to diagnose a perforated appendix, and that after I told the first two I thought my appendix was the problem. In short, they stumbled all over themselves thinking it was PID, hepatitis A, a lower GI problem, and I don't remember what all else. What brought it to an end was that I finally had enough of their nonsense and pitched a minor bitch at the GP. I was sent to a surgeon the next day who managed to conclude I needed an appendectomy. You'd think that would be the end of my story, but no, because that surgeon screwed up and so a month later I had to undergo a second surgery. My extremely good health is probably the only thing that saved me from the ineptitude of all those physicians.
A few months later one of the gals who worked for me became ill and her doctors were about to do to her what mine did to me, but she told them what I'd been through and, thank goodness, they actually listened, so it only took her a few days to have an appendectomy.
Yeah I've seen it happen with my own family, one mistake resulted in a heart attack for my mom because they were forcing a prn inhaler on her every four hours. She was in for a knee replacement surgery. We would call the hospital and due to hipaa laws they couldn't tell us anything. Mom thought she had given permission for anyone to call and ask information.
Turns out they had been asking her questions right after she came out of anesthesia instead of before. My aunt and I were watching things like a hawk when she went for the second surgery.
A large part of why I didn't go into the medical field was cause I make stupid mistakes. I'm flat out unobservant.
I fully believ these are honest mistakes, cause I'd be making these same mistakes. I really wish they would've looked inside themselves before choosing a life or death career path,though.
I'm a living example of non-death mistakes. It took 5 doctors 4 weeks to diagnose a perforated appendix, and that after I told the first two I thought my appendix was the problem. In short, they stumbled all over themselves thinking it was PID, hepatitis A, a lower GI problem, and I don't remember what all else. What brought it to an end was that I finally had enough of their nonsense and pitched a minor bitch at the GP. I was sent to a surgeon the next day who managed to conclude I needed an appendectomy. You'd think that would be the end of my story, but no, because that surgeon screwed up and so a month later I had to undergo a second surgery. My extremely good health is probably the only thing that saved me from the ineptitude of all those physicians.
A few months later one of the gals who worked for me became ill and her doctors were about to do to her what mine did to me, but she told them what I'd been through and, thank goodness, they actually listened, so it only took her a few days to have an appendectomy.
Yeah I've seen it happen with my own family, one mistake resulted in a heart attack for my mom because they were forcing a prn inhaler on her every four hours. She was in for a knee replacement surgery. We would call the hospital and due to hipaa laws they couldn't tell us anything. Mom thought she had given permission for anyone to call and ask information.
Turns out they had been asking her questions right after she came out of anesthesia instead of before. My aunt and I were watching things like a hawk when she went for the second surgery.
A large part of why I didn't go into the medical field was cause I make stupid mistakes. I'm flat out unobservant.
I fully believ these are honest mistakes, cause I'd be making these same mistakes. I really wish they would've looked inside themselves before choosing a life or death career path,though.