tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post114632558349249917..comments2024-01-26T10:25:48.047-08:00Comments on shrimplate: Finityshrimplatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1146544160090044042006-05-01T21:29:00.000-07:002006-05-01T21:29:00.000-07:00It's a tough job being an ER doctor. And they can ...It's a tough job being an ER doctor. And they can make the right call 999 times, and then the thousandth time they call it wrong and end up getting sued.<BR/><BR/>Last year my daughter had a urinary infection. She saw the ER doctor and he gave her a prescription for an antibiotic. Then she got worse, and it turned out that the strain she had was resistant to the antibiotic. True, I wish they'd done a better job with their labs, and true, my other daughter has also been misdiagnosed in the ER (one time they said she had flu and it turned out to be strep throat.) But I don't blame the doctors for this kind of stuff-- unless its really gross incompetence (like what you are describing) I tend to give the docs the benefit of the doubt.<BR/><BR/>In fact, during my wife's recent surgery there were at least two things that went wrong-- first, she was in for four and a half hours (7:30-11:55), but the doctors never came to see me and after six hours(1:30), I went to the desk and they told me that the surgery was over more than an hour earlier and she was in the recovery room. I learned what was done by reading the report (which was conveniently next to her in the recovery room) and neither of us spoke to a doctor until 3:30 that afternoon when one of the doctors came to her room.<BR/><BR/>Then, last week when she had her staples out via her doctor here, he told her he'd hardly ever seen such a poor job of stapling-- she had staples even more than an inch away from where the wound was. Probably an intern (we were told that there was one present) did it or something. I'm sure this contributed to why my wife was in as much pain as she has been in for the past couple of weeks.<BR/><BR/>So, I'm not thrilled, but I understand that doctors have a tough job so we aren't all bent out of shape about it either.Eli Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00792743206074537073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1146466456932081572006-04-30T23:54:00.000-07:002006-04-30T23:54:00.000-07:00That's the kind of story that scares the crap out ...That's the kind of story that scares the crap out of me as a new ER nurse.<BR/><BR/>So many of the veterans are so quick to call "drug seeker" (and so often right), yet I always worry if we'll be wrong once, with a fatal result.<BR/><BR/>Sounds a lot like the John Ritter story, although from what I've read (not much) they probably couldn't have saved him if he was disecting when he walked into the ER...<BR/><BR/>Hasn't stopped his family from suing, though...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com