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50 Times Hospitals Were Involved In Lawsuits Due To Awful Mistakes
Interview
We might not realize this, but every time we go to the hospital, we put a lot of trust in the hands of doctors. We are confident that these specialists will do their best to help and heal us. However, what we often forget is that they’re still humans who are prone to errors. Sometimes, very detrimental ones that threaten lives and put healthcare institutions in tough situations.
To learn more about this, a trauma surgeon under the nickname trauma.bae on TikTok asked fellow medical workers to share the most shocking hospital mistakes that had harrowing consequences. Our Bored Panda team collected the top answers to her question, which you can see for yourself down below.
While you're scrolling through, don't forget to check out a conversation with the trauma surgeon nicknamed trauma.bae on TikTok, who sparked this discussion and kindly agreed to tell us what inspired her to start it.
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#1
Personal but my dad had 2 crushed discs and the surgeon took out the wrong ones. Sued, won, took his license.
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#2
It was my best friend's first baby. went in because her water broke. they sent her home and said she peed herself. turns out her water did break and baby was w/o amniotic fluid for 24 hrs. she went in for an emergency C-section. she kept telling the Drs that her legs were not numb yet, they started cutting anyways. she screamed so loudly until she passed out from the pain.
#3
I kept going to the hospital with abdominal pain they kept sending me home telling me it was my period. I was actually having an ectopic pregnancy and my fallopian tube ruptured and I was dying
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
As one who survived her own ruptured ectopic pregnancy, my heart goes out to OP. I wouldn't wish that misery on anyone.
Studies and reports claim that medical errors take between 250,000 and 440,000 people’s lives in the US every year. This makes hospital mistakes the third most common cause of death after heart disease and cancer.
Misdiagnosis in particular causes 371,000 deaths and 424,000 permanent disabilities in the US each year, which totals almost 800,000 people harmed by healthcare institutions due to incorrect diagnosis.
Bored Panda reached out to the trauma surgeon nicknamed trauma.bae on TikTok, who recently sparked the discussion about hospital mistakes online, and kindly agreed to chat with us about it more.
#4
I woke up in the middle of my OOO to my surgeon removing my ovary (+10cm endometriosis mass) raising it to her eyes singing the lion king song. They all looked at me and then knocked me back out
#5
Doctor was doing an angiogram on my grandma and stabbed it right through her heart… she was on life support for a few days but didn’t make it. My mom tried to sue, but they had 6 months to cover it up and magically didn’t have “any documentation” of what had happened. Autopsy showed that her death was a direct result from his mistakes. Ironically his name is Dr. Burke.
#6
Dr. Said a patient was faking being allergic to penicillin because he had Munchhausen’s. She then gave him penicillin anyway, and he went into cardiac arrest.
She tells us that she was inspired to start the discussion with fellow medical workers online about medical errors because of a recent similar event that happened.
"It was initially meant to be a gossipy kind of TikTok to hear the crazy stories out there. The reason I thought of it was because the story of the surgeon in Florida who removed someone’s liver instead of their spleen just came out, so that was still fresh in my head.
As a surgeon, that’s actually the kind of stuff I talk about with my other surgeon friends and other healthcare workers because it’s so insane that you can’t not talk about it. I did not intend for it to be that deep, I was just using the “I’m bored” trend with a twist as a healthcare worker," she explained.
#7
Sent my mom home from the ICU half conscious because she was uninsured. She died in her sleep.
#8
A doctor at my hospital sent a pt home with a BP of 200/110 symptomatic and that pt was actually having an active stroke but the Dr wouldn’t listen… pt husband was an attorney
#9
While inside my mother the doctor was looking for the soft spot on my head and instead stabbed my eye with his finger causing me to become fully blind. Ending in a half million dollar lawsuit. 😭
She tells us that the reasons for such mistakes are generally complicated and can include a lot of factors.
"Most mistakes occur due to system issues, miscommunication, or human factors. Most errors are due to multiple mistakes as described in the Swiss cheese model rather than a single mistake."
Indeed, many experts are blaming medical errors on the way the healthcare system itself is operating. System failures, inadequate or unclear communication between healthcare professionals, and staff shortages are common causes of medical mistakes.
#10
The doctor broke my water after I repeatedly told her not to. Then the nurse came in and checked me and said “she broke your water without your consent”
#11
My son’s grandmother was being treated for cancer. A nurse didn’t take note that she had already administered the chemo and she was double dosed, it k**led her. Major lawsuit that the family won.
#12
My mom's boyfriend went to the ER with complains. They scheduled him for an MRI. We had to chase them down the hallway-tv drama style. Not one dr or nurse read in his chart that he had a pacemaker.
Bored Sailor 4 months ago
I have had over 8 MRIs if in the USA the MRI tech asks a ton of questions, now they have special garments to wear to ensure no metallic material including underwear.
Because of this, the trauma surgeon believes that workers who make mistakes shouldn't always suffer serious consequences.
"A punitive system does not reduce errors, it merely discourages errors from being reported out of fear and therefore has a worse effect on patient and staff safety.
Healthcare workers need to be aware of medical errors so we can learn from them and try to prevent them from happening again. [Those] who make mistakes are usually given the outcomes of the root cause analysis and offered training and education on the issue to prevent it from happening again."
#13
Patient woke up during his honor walk and asked what was going on
#14
Not a lawsuit but a c section was performed on a pt without anesthesia bc they couldn’t get an iv & the attending was scissor happy/anxious…I had to help hold her legs down. I quit shortly after
#15
I worked in Florida and the absolute worst a pts lung biopsy tested + for Cancer. The surgeon removed the Wrong lung 🫁 then tried to cover it up. We were on CNN.
"The majority of errors are actual mistakes and not actions done with malicious intent," she adds.
"So think of a wrong medication being given because two drug names are similar, not a Dr. Death-type situation. Yes, criminal cases of medical harm exist, but thankfully, those aren’t common, and those are not the kind of medical mistakes that I’m talking about now. In the TikTok I made, I did not specify either way and was welcoming stories of all kinds, ranging from honest mistakes to criminal and malicious cases."
#16
When my moms cousin and his wife’s newborn twins were getting discharged, the nurse accidentally cut off the baby’s pinky instead of the hospital bracelet 😅
#17
I told the anesthesiologist that I was allergic to propofol- she told me that it was unlikely and gave it to me anyways once I went under… I then had an hour long seizure
#18
Told doctor I was considered with drop in fetal heart rate of my baby after a car accident. Doctor and RT laughed and said he was playing with the umbilical cord. Lost my son 3 days later at 27 weeks.
After hearing such stories, some people may become apprehensive about trusting healthcare workers. We asked the trauma surgeon for her thoughts on this.
"First, I’d separate healthcare workers and healthcare institutions. The overwhelming majority of healthcare workers care very deeply about patients and are absolutely horrified about medical mistakes.
Second, healthcare institutions are businesses. While they have a mission to provide excellent patient care, the ability to do so requires more than just the workers.
In addition, the ability to run a good business and provide good patient care is highly variable among different facilities. Some institutions and systems function in ways that can lead to maximizing profits being a higher priority than patient care. I think it’s a well-known fact that the US healthcare system as a whole is broken and far from ideal," she explains.
#19
After birth, they left my placenta inside me. I didn’t know until almost a week later when I asked the nurse why I was still bleeding out. I got rushed for an emergency d&c 🫠
#20
My mom had the most insane headache ever & was displaying other symptoms w/ intense back pain. They thought she only wanted narcotics & sent her away. Turned out to be meningitis and she has a CS leak
#21
I went in to have a brain tumor removed. Surgeon told me 3 days later that he looked at my post-op scans and the tumor is still there. He removed healthy brain tissue next to the tumor. 🤷♀️
In general, she believes such stories shouldn't make people trust medical institutions less.
"While stories of these medical mistakes shouldn’t make people trust institutions less, I’m not surprised if they do. Just remember, healthcare workers dedicate years of our lives training for our jobs, we have difficult and long shifts, and we continue to do it because we care deeply for all of our patients, and we genuinely want to help people."
#22
My grandfather was turned away from an ER because he couldn’t speak and the person in charge thought he was being racist by not speaking. Turns out it was a brain aneurysm.
#23
My sisters OB recorded her blood type incorrectly so she never received her RH shot like she should have, she had to deliver a stillborn. They told her it happened because she was unmarried…
#24
Student nurse gave crushed up PO meds and tap water via central line instead of in the NGT. Her preceptor had stepped away to take a phone call and explicitly told her not to do anything. Patient died
Even though the scope of medical mistakes seems very significant, there’s less than a 0.1% chance that a person will suffer serious harm from misdiagnosis after a health care visit. Therefore, experts advise not to lose faith in the healthcare system, as no one is more knowledgeable than doctors in hospitals to help us with various health concerns.
#25
Our transplant status was revoked because there was a doctor picking and choosing who got organs by falsifying records to make certain people seem like worse candidates.
Rinso The Red 4 months ago
Why do I have a horrible feeling about who "certain people" is referencing?
#26
Our neonatologist refused to do our sons lifesaving surgery and said we should just let him pass away at 3 days old. The surgery worked btw.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
This one I can kind of understand neonatologist's thinking, (not expecting it to work and having it possibly prolonging baby's suffering) but to refuse to do the surgery is wrong. That is the family's decision and I'm glad they found someone who would do it.
#27
I’m allergic to propofol. It’s in my chart. Dr. at Mayo Clinic gave it to me anyways and lied saying I agreed to it although the nurses said I didn’t. I needed 3 epis &was in icu bc of this.
#28
They told my dad he just had sciatica, my dad had a tumor the size of a grapefruit growing on his femur and was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
Penelope Orange 4 months ago (edited)
"Just had sciatica". Sciatica is extremely painful, and can be debilitating. I can't stop reading these, but I am getting increasingly angry over the careless actions of medical personnel.
#29
Postpartum nurse came to nicu to medicate mom who was doing skin to skin with infant. Pushed iv meds into wrong line and gave it to the baby instead 🙃
#30
Nurse at a major pediatric hospital ran a tube feed into a NICU patient's ET tube. Punishment was her having to talk about the mistake in an educational video about sentinel events and it was made into an EDUCATION MODULE that all nurses at that hospital had to complete.
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
God d**n it people. I get what an NICU patient is, but the hell is an ET tube and why does it cause a sentinel event when you run a tube feed into it. Also, what the hell is a sentinel event. This isn't a prescription, people actually need to be able to read your reddit post 😂
#31
We “lost” a body. Family was devastated, 2+ weeks.. whole time wanna know where it was?? In the hallways next to the MORGUE… HOW DID EVERYONE MISS IT? Cost the hospital MILLIONS in lawsuit..
Apachebathmat 4 months ago
Two weeks out of cold storage? You’d smell it before you saw it. I call BS
#32
Trauma center sent home a deceased pt’s severed arm in a personal belongings bag with family, unbeknownst to the family till they got home 😫
#33
I had routine gallbladder removal surgery, I bled out at home, went into septic shock, hemoglobin was a 5, and went into kidney failure. The surgeon forgot to clip my vessels lol.
Remi (He/Him) 4 months ago
Possible that the vessels were clipped but badly. A famous singer Tapani Kansa (super famous in Finland that is) died just this year because of internal bleeding after gallbladder removal. They sent him home after surgery even though he was in bad shape. Ended up back on an ambulance ride soon after, but he had lost too much blood
#34
Nurse tried to send me home on concussion protocol, refusing a CT, after I got one it was discovered I had 3 brain bleeds and was rushed to ICU
Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
I got sent home after a concussion, even though I didn't know what year it was or had any idea how long I'd been unconscious. I still have memory issues 1 1/2 years later.
#35
My old anatomy professor at my community college was a former surgeon that had left instruments in his patients… multiple times…
Jamie Peterson 4 months ago
Count. The. Sharps. Count the Instruments. Basic techniques that always work!!
#36
They said my records showed I was HIV+ after I went in concerned I was in prelabor. I was hysterical, 8 months pregnant, confused looking at my hubby and him looking at me! It was an error.
#37
Told us my sister was faking being sick bc she was fat(they literally used the word, she was 11) turns out it was actually cancer that went undiagnosed for another 2 years until it [ended] her
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
Doctors really need to be taught (though it shouldn't be necessary) to treat overweight people as people, like any other patient! Until you know (from evidence) that a patient is uncooperative with treatment etc, you should treat them as any other person that requires treatment for a condition. I have been overweight at times because of medication side affects and I know how hard it is to lose weight even if you desperately want to. Especially if you have other conditions that make it harder to exercise, like my fibromyalgia.
#38
This one nurse was checking a man’s blood pressure consistently throughout the day. the guy was dead. she didn’t report it. she made up the blood pressures.
#39
My grandma went in for a normal colonoscopy. Died on the table twice because they punctured her small intestines. They were able to get her stable and she’s ok now thank God.
Remi (He/Him) 4 months ago
How do you puncture the small intestine during colonoscopy even? Colonoscopy is normally the large intestine only
#40
Doctor attempted a risky procedure to deliver baby. Ended up internally decapitating said baby and another one a month later. The risky move wasn’t even needed he just wanted to try it. Still licensed
#41
Travel nurse didn’t check a patient in the bear hugger for the full 12 hour shift. They were 106 when day shift came on and did bedside report.
#42
New grad hooked up tube feed to a dialysis permcath. Patient died 😬 Still can’t figure out how she got them connected.
#43
When my father had a heart attack the EMTs took him to a hospital 35 mins away vs the newly renovated one 3 blocks away 😁 he died
#44
My mom had surgery in her neck. They accidentally left gauze in her neck. They had to cut her open again to take it out. She won that lawsuit quick & gave me $20,000
#45
Routine colonoscopy, not given enough anesthesia, so much pain caused muscles to tighten up, scope scraped my instine, massive gi bleed. Need transfusions and spent 4 days in the hospital
Earonn - 4 months ago
Hell, how did they do that colonoscopy? I had nothing and it was at worst "unpleasant". Yes, each person is different, but if they got anaesthesia and needed more because of the pain, it sounds like the doc rammed the endoscope into them with force...
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
Could have been a manufacturing defect or contamination of the instrument. I'm imagining this as more of an incident where an obstruction was present on the side of the scope and it made a cut as the scope was pushed further inside, but obviously behind the viewable area for the scope. I am THOROUGHLY regretting imagining this period, but what's done is done, I suppose.
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Gerry Higgins 4 months ago
I was given propofol so unconscious for the colonoscopy. I think it depends on how far up they're going if you get knocked out or anesthesia or nothing.
Roberta Surprenant 4 months ago
My records tell doctor to give me extra anesthesia during colonoscopy. Dentist needs to do that too. Lucky me...
Shortstuff 4 months ago (edited)
I had 2 colonoscopies years ago with no anesthesia. Not painful at all, but not exactly pleasant.
tori Ohno 4 months ago
I call BS on this one. The instrument is too small to cause pain, and has industrial strength lube on it. The scope also can't scrape or cut. Is that your excuse for a back door game gone wrong?
Renee McCarthy 3 months ago
BS!! I’ve had 3, and they always say “it’ll be slightly uncomfortable, but you won’t even rember it.” But my body processes pain meds too quickly and it hurt so bad a was screaming the place down. They had to give me double the amount and THEN it was only uncomfortable. And I remember every single minute of it. I can even remember seeing the screen the dr looked at and seeing my insides. The last time the nurse told me she will make sure it’s written in my chart and for me to make the anaesthesiologist aware of my history every time I go in.
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Pt complaining of heart burn for weeks. Was only 30. ER refused an EKG or anything because “he’s too young for heart problems.” Discharged him. He died that night in his bathroom.
#49
Guy comes in unresponsive. Hospital calls family saying he’s basically brain dead. Family says pull the plug. Turns out they mixed him up w/ his roommate.
#50
fetal demise. decapitation from delivery. provider didn’t tell the family. the funeral home called the parents in doing funeral prep and said “uhhh did you know?” immediate law suit.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
This usually happens when forceps are used to try and extricate the baby, or the attending surgeon uses their hands to assist delivery and pulls too hard, literally severing the baby's spine internally, resulting in its death even as it is being born. Absolutely horrific.
#51
mine isn't dramatic but traumatic. had a hysterectomy at 26, the surgeon cut thru my intestines by mistake. ive had 17 surgeries since due to that.
#52
My papa died from his cancer bc the hospital insisted his insurance was denying the care but when he talked to the company they said it was covered. they were submitting a different patients info
#53
My trans cousin had a hysterectomy. He went to the ER the next day with pain. They completely brushed him off. Said he asked for surgery and surgery is painful. He died the next day (internal bleed)
Jamie Peterson 4 months ago
I am sorry for your loss. ALL surgeries carry risk. That much more reason not to have 'Elective' surgeries. My sympathies for your cousin.
#54
Tried calling my nurse while in labor. she told me she didn't think it was important. I delivered my baby by myself. but my baby fell head first on the floor. the Doc came in and she was Livid!!!
#55
not my hospital, but just a few hours away. anesthesiologist forgot to administer a medication. woman was fully conscious during surgery but paralyzed. woke up with blood curdling screams.
#56
Nurse gave whole vial of insulin, patient ended up in ICU
SadFatTortilla 2 months ago
Im pretty certain an entire vial would have sent them to the morgue
#57
My grandma was having a triple bypass and they gave her the wrong blood. She lived. Craziest part is she was an ER nurse at this hospital.
#58
I had sepsis, went to the ER, was there for 3 hours and they sent me home because they thought it wasn’t serious, had to go straight back 7 hours later because it got way worse and I could have died.
#59
A nurse gave cough syrup through the IV
#60
My cousin's dentist said she was good to drive herself home after having her wisdom teeth taken out even tho she’d been sedated and was out of it… she ended up crashing and dying that day
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
How utterly horrific. I had 7 wisdom teeth that I had extracted when I was 18 - they wouldn't LET me drive myself home; I HAD to have an adult come with me to the procedure to drive me home. I know some people who have fewer wisdom teeth sometimes have their surgeries only with a local anesthesia, but I was fully "put under" and it sounds like OP's cousin was, as well.
#61
Federal inmate escaped from my hospital… because a CO was sleeping while the other took a potty break 😅
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
CO = correctional officer. To wit, the guards who were supposed to be keeping an eye on the federal inmate XD
#63
Our ed had to call the fire department because there was not enough employees to cover the emergency room, so they called them in for help.
#64
A family at our hospital identified a John Doe wrong and gave away his organs. It was not their son.
#65
Not the one I worked at but the one I was born at had an anesthesiologist that killed mom/baby while giving epidural. He was drunk. Punctured an artery and anesthesia flooded in.
#66
This happened here in South Africa. A patient came in for heart burn and the nurse gave him Gaviscon(which your meant to drink) via his IV line. He died
#67
Patient was in SVT. They defibrillated instead of doing a synchronized cardioversion. Patient went into v fib and died.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
"SVT stands for Supraventricular Tachycardia, a condition where the heart beats too fast due to abnormal electrical signals originating in the upper chambers (atria) of the heart. It's a common type of arrhythmia, and while usually not life-threatening, it can cause uncomfortable symptoms." - generally NOT treated by defibrillator as it is not a ventricular fibrillation situation. Generally treated by either an adenosine injection or by the Valsalva maneuver ("performed by a forceful attempt of exhalation against a closed airway, usually done by closing one's mouth and pinching one's nose shut while expelling air, as if blowing up a balloon.")
#68
A surgeon removed a patients liver instead of his spleen after convincing him he would d*e if he didn’t have the surgery asap
#69
Nurse thought they were giving iv Tylenol which goes over 15 mins, they connected a bag of Levo that was bedside and ran the entire bag of Levo over the 15 mins, pt coded and got ROSC, pt brain dead
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
ROSC = "Return of Spontaneous Circulation", meaning the patient's heart DID restart beating. Unfortunately it sounds like their brain had gone too long without oxygen and they had sustained catastrophic brain damage from that. Not sure what medication "Levo" refers to, however. Levophed (norepinephrine) perhaps?
#70
I went in for a colonoscopy and was experiencing extreme delusions and psychosis when I came to. Found out later that the anesthesiologist was mixing stuff he shouldn’t have been mixing.
#71
My aunt got sick in covid time, the er docs were intubating her and broke one of her teeth, dragged it all the way down to the lungs and left it there... she almost died from all the complications...
#72
My mom is a nurse. Took care of son of Sam. Anyway…. Back in the day her nurse colleague was arrested for pulling up and injecting toilet water into her patients.
#73
Friend of a friends mother got admitted for a UTI. The hospital malpractice caused amputation of both arms and legs. They won the lawsuit and got millions. Mother unfortunately died not long after.
#74
My uncle's wife was scratched by a racoon. She was on antibiotics in the hospital. They stopped the medication prematurely. Infection came back. Bad and fast. Died a few days later. He won the lawsuit
#75
A woman came in for a cholecystectomy. She went under and was confused for another woman getting her right leg amputated. They took her healthy leg 😫
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
A cholecystectomy is a surgery to remove the gallbladder - meaning that, not only did they remove this woman's entirely healthy, normal leg, they also FAILED to actually perform the cholecystectomy to remove her gallbladder. She probably ended up needing to go into surgery again at some point to ACTUALLY receive the cholecystectomy. How horrifying.
#76
Surgeon at my hospital was doing endoscopic suturing, when he tried pulling the scope out there was lots of resistance… turns put he sutured the scope to the patient’s stomach 🙂
#77
My brother was stillborn and it was the doctor‘s fault, and while my mom was on painkillers they made her sign an indemnity clause so they couldn’t get sued, and then they told her.
#78
my grandma was discharged w an UTI, it was heart failure, went to another hospital days later, they said her scans were showing the beginning of a stroke but “nothing to worry”, was discharged & d!ed
#79
My son was born at 26 weeks and developed hydrocephalus, the neurosurgeon that placed his shunt didn’t give him enough tubing. After 2 surgeries from “his shunt pieces failing” (where they could have seen he didn’t have enough tubing in his stomach)… we were in Texas, he had grown enough to where the tubing was hitting his sternum and we had to be life flighted to Cooks Children in Dallas where they had to do emergency surgery to completely replace the shunt and tubing.
Stephanie Did It 4 months ago
My friend's son was born in an army hospital and was brought to her with a mysterious dent in his forehead and having seizures. The doctors and staff had "no idea" what caused the damage. He lived as a quadriplegic until he was 19. No one was ever made accountable.
#81
Not me but a close friend who worked at a hospital. the janitor hated the beeping sound that a freezer made so he unplugged it. It was 20 years worth and thousands of frozen eggs & embryos.
T'Mar of Vulcan 4 months ago
That's based on the urban legend of a South African hospital where the cleaner unplugged the life support machine to plug in the floor polisher. Never happened.
#83
Never sued but my husband went to urgent care for a cold. They sent him home with antibiotics and nothing else. It was the beginning stages of leukemia.
#84
My nurse was gonna push potassium so I could go home early. I stopped her
#85
Told my mom she had a blood clot on her spine. A year later they said It was a tumor & it had spread to her brain & lungs. She died 8 months after that.
#86
Worked at an ophthalmology office and the Dr injected a steroid straight into this mans eye when usually it went onto the “surface” and he basically went blind and needed emergency surgery the same day
#87
I had a cesarean and they damaged all the nerves in my stomach and I’m still struggling with pain and health issues since then.
#88
Don’t work at a hospital but my dad is a lawyer. He sued a hospital because there was a doctor purposely injecting carbon dioxide or something into his patients’ bloodstreams and killing them 👀
#89
They gave my dying grandma a rotten liver
Fellfromthemoon 4 months ago (edited)
As an organ donation or as lunch? I don't want to joke, I'm honestly baffled.
#90
A paralysed patient uses a heat pack on her back. She ended up getting burnt without realising, developed sepsis and passed 🥺
#91
A resident surgeon made the sutures surrounding a new ostomy way too tight, the ostomy went necrotic and started to spread to the remainder of her bowels. She went back into surgery but idk what happened
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 months ago
An ostomy is a hole (stoma) in your body created by a surgical procedure. They can be placed in different places for different reasons, but the most commonly-known is for a colostomy bag.
#92
Nurse gave Vecuronium instead of versed for mild sedation before a CT scan…yup…
Ahnjunwan 4 months ago
Oh how nasty! For explanation, it is a muscle relaxant but it does not knock you out. What happens is,your muscles for breathing and so on do not work anymore but you are fully aware of it. Howa nurse does that accidently remains a mystery to me, though. I know that in the US in many operations the anesthesia is performed by a nurse and the actual anesthesist is overlooking many operations at the same time but a CT? Wild
#93
I win. Had a pt come in for labor with twins, c section. Surgeon cut too deep she lost both her babies.. they didn’t clean her out after well enough and she was sent home with necrotizing fasciitis.
#94
My mom kicked in the head by a horse at age 11. Doctors sent her from ER saying it was just soft tissue trauma. She was vomiting blood all night. Prnts took her back in AM… deadly subdural hematoma
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 4 months ago
Your mother was kicked in the head by a horse, and taken back in with a deadly subdural hematoma... at age eleven? So, your mother died when she was eleven. Yes, young mothers exist, but seeing as this comes from Tiktok...
#95
Had a OB doctor come in drunk all the time wasn’t a big deal they said till he was on call when the CEO’s wife was the patient
YakFactory 4 months ago
Why was the CEO's wife more important than all the other patients? A doctor treating any patient when they're drunk is not acceptable?
#96
A guys girlfriend dressed up as a nurse to stay at the hospital and was convinced she could save him…he coded….she did “cpr” he died. She tried to sue the hospital.
Clown fish 4 months ago
🤔 hmmm ok how was she getting a round the hospital without a key card ? An know one batted an eye at a nurse they never seen before hanging around
#97
I was with a patient with my dad and told the patient who had broken legs, who healed, "don't break a leg!", as a joke
#98
I think I’ll win this. someone wrapped a stillborn in sheets and EVS came to clean the morgue and found a ball of sheets in one of the bays and thought it was dirty laundry so they threw it away
What do you think ?
Stephanie L Thesing 4 months ago
I know things happen, unfortunately, but I call bs on a huge number of these. I have a legit medical condition from rolling my eyes…
Jennifer Drake 4 months ago
Make up a story about it! The doctor you went to, instead of running tests, removed your eyes, and took them bowling till he scored a turkey. Never did, you now have rolling turkey eye condiontitis. I am so sorry.
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Robyn Hill 4 months ago
I know some of these may be fictional, but having lived through a massive incident of malpractice, in which my mom was overdosed with blood thinners because no one could bother to check her chart, resulting in her death, I’m certain almost all of these could happen.
Ever 4 months ago
My mom needed to be moved to another hospital for urgent dialysis. The Dr insisted that she had to be moved by helicopter and that we didn't have to go to the hospital where she was because "she was doing fine". 8 hours later she arrived by ambulance at the hospital where my sister had been waiting for her. My sister is a nurse and she could tell that mom was already dead, by one look at her. Turns out the Dr sent another patient with the helicopter because "he lived there" (in the city where the hospital is). We managed to get a phonecall with the Dr where is first mixed us up with another family telling us that my dad and grandmother was there with her at the first hospital. Dad and grandma has been dead for 15 years. He then insisted that my sister hand't answered his calls about him not sending mom with the helicopter. My sister called the hospital once an hour and she never got any calls from him.
Kristiina Männiste 4 months ago
Our staff actually forgot one patient in the clinic overnight. But with best intentions really. The elderly man had had his surgery and wanted to rest for a bit, so the nurse showed him a quiet nook with a bed where he could rest. Must have been comfortable because the patient fell asleep. Meanwhile the nurse finished her shift and went home, but forgot to tell the next shift about the pt. Well next shift finishes too and closes up the clinic. Lights out and security system on and stuff. In the middle of the night pt wakes up confused, moves around in the clinic and triggers the security alarm. Security and police are called and finally a nurse who can get the pt out of the clinic. The clinic DID get in trouble, but as the pt was unharmed and, after calming down, had no complaints about us, we got off relatively easily.
Kristiina Männiste 4 months ago
Yes the staff is now strictly instructed to check the clinic for stray people before closing. We should have done that from the start, but guess we did not imagine things like this can happen. I think the security and police got a good laugh tho.
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Skywitness 4 months ago
I talked to a rather pale man sitting in a wheelchair. He was missing his left leg below the knee. I asked it it was a complication of diabetes. He said no, it was an ingrown toenail. It had gotten painful and required minor surgery. That led to a hospital borne infection that went right to the bone and the amputation.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
My kinda-sorta BIL (long story) passed away in mid-May at 31. Took us till early July to get the cause of death back... hospital discharged him after an ER trip knowing he had so many gallstones that something was horribly wrong. Told him to come back the next day. We'll, that was impossible, since he died overnight...of acute pancreatitis. One of the main reasons for which is... gallstones. His father has raised a small army of lawyers who are waiting for the hospital's Sentinel investigation to release its findings...
Tamiko 4 months ago
Teen falls off a roof and breaks his arm below the elbow. Doctor is called and turns up so drunk, he mistakes the break for a dislocated elbow. He causes so much damage, the arm had to be amputated at the elbow. Curious to see if anyone can name who that happened to, and also what the person couldn't do after.
BookFanatic 4 months ago (edited)
Even if some of these are pure fiction, they're still horrifying to contemplate. The only story I have is my mom's OBGYN telling her (during labor) that I was terribly disfigured and likely wouldn't survive being born. The idiot didn't realize I was turned around and he was feeling my butt instead of my head. Spoiler Alert: I've survived 46 yrs so far...
HelyerT 4 months ago
An old tutor went to hospital with neck ache. They told him he slept funny. Turns out it was a tumour. Was paraplegic in less than 24 hours. Massive pay out. Was on the news.
David Morgan 4 months ago
Nonsense - a tumour that grows so fast it paralysed someone in a few days (assuming they waited a couple of days after the pain started)? Have you been watching Akira?
Load More Replies... Tams21 4 months ago
When I was in hospital, they were about to take my roommate out to do a procedure that was meant for me and given her underlying health issues, would have caused huge problems a an operation to reverse. It was only my and her adamant and very firm insistence that they were making a mistake that got the to double check. I dread to think what would have happened if either of us had been drowsy from medication or too ill to to make a fuss.
Kylie 4 months ago (edited)
I went in for an op to place a stent in my right leg where they feed it through the top of your left leg. Surgeon when closing somehow managed to connect vein to artery resulting in zero blood flow in left leg. Found out 2 weeks later after follow up ultrasound. Emergency surgery next morning to rectify. Now have constant swollen left leg and severe stasis dermatitis annd what was my 'good leg' is now my 'bad one' Surgeon admitted fault and the practice wouldn't let him do the follow up operation. Considering suing.
Pheebs 4 months ago
This will be downvoted to hell, but I trust my Chiropractor more than I trust most medical professionals. My chiro has never adjusted me wrong, will refuse to do adjustments if she thinks they could cause an issue, and has helped me go to appropriate doctors for issues when GPs have failed. (If a chiro adjusts you without checking you over, or at least a CT, get a new chiro.) I’ve had far too many years of so called doctors telling me I’m fat when I developed severe stomach issues (which caused the weight gain and turned out to be actual medical problems), dismissing issues, or generally not listening. Not to mention pill pushing when I don’t want them, refusing to establish baseline bloodwork. I can go on.
Stephanie L Thesing 4 months ago
I know things happen, unfortunately, but I call bs on a huge number of these. I have a legit medical condition from rolling my eyes…
Jennifer Drake 4 months ago
Make up a story about it! The doctor you went to, instead of running tests, removed your eyes, and took them bowling till he scored a turkey. Never did, you now have rolling turkey eye condiontitis. I am so sorry.
Load More Replies... Robyn Hill 4 months ago
I know some of these may be fictional, but having lived through a massive incident of malpractice, in which my mom was overdosed with blood thinners because no one could bother to check her chart, resulting in her death, I’m certain almost all of these could happen.
Ever 4 months ago
My mom needed to be moved to another hospital for urgent dialysis. The Dr insisted that she had to be moved by helicopter and that we didn't have to go to the hospital where she was because "she was doing fine". 8 hours later she arrived by ambulance at the hospital where my sister had been waiting for her. My sister is a nurse and she could tell that mom was already dead, by one look at her. Turns out the Dr sent another patient with the helicopter because "he lived there" (in the city where the hospital is). We managed to get a phonecall with the Dr where is first mixed us up with another family telling us that my dad and grandmother was there with her at the first hospital. Dad and grandma has been dead for 15 years. He then insisted that my sister hand't answered his calls about him not sending mom with the helicopter. My sister called the hospital once an hour and she never got any calls from him.
Kristiina Männiste 4 months ago
Our staff actually forgot one patient in the clinic overnight. But with best intentions really. The elderly man had had his surgery and wanted to rest for a bit, so the nurse showed him a quiet nook with a bed where he could rest. Must have been comfortable because the patient fell asleep. Meanwhile the nurse finished her shift and went home, but forgot to tell the next shift about the pt. Well next shift finishes too and closes up the clinic. Lights out and security system on and stuff. In the middle of the night pt wakes up confused, moves around in the clinic and triggers the security alarm. Security and police are called and finally a nurse who can get the pt out of the clinic. The clinic DID get in trouble, but as the pt was unharmed and, after calming down, had no complaints about us, we got off relatively easily.
Kristiina Männiste 4 months ago
Yes the staff is now strictly instructed to check the clinic for stray people before closing. We should have done that from the start, but guess we did not imagine things like this can happen. I think the security and police got a good laugh tho.
Load More Replies... Skywitness 4 months ago
I talked to a rather pale man sitting in a wheelchair. He was missing his left leg below the knee. I asked it it was a complication of diabetes. He said no, it was an ingrown toenail. It had gotten painful and required minor surgery. That led to a hospital borne infection that went right to the bone and the amputation.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
My kinda-sorta BIL (long story) passed away in mid-May at 31. Took us till early July to get the cause of death back... hospital discharged him after an ER trip knowing he had so many gallstones that something was horribly wrong. Told him to come back the next day. We'll, that was impossible, since he died overnight...of acute pancreatitis. One of the main reasons for which is... gallstones. His father has raised a small army of lawyers who are waiting for the hospital's Sentinel investigation to release its findings...
Tamiko 4 months ago
Teen falls off a roof and breaks his arm below the elbow. Doctor is called and turns up so drunk, he mistakes the break for a dislocated elbow. He causes so much damage, the arm had to be amputated at the elbow. Curious to see if anyone can name who that happened to, and also what the person couldn't do after.
BookFanatic 4 months ago (edited)
Even if some of these are pure fiction, they're still horrifying to contemplate. The only story I have is my mom's OBGYN telling her (during labor) that I was terribly disfigured and likely wouldn't survive being born. The idiot didn't realize I was turned around and he was feeling my butt instead of my head. Spoiler Alert: I've survived 46 yrs so far...
HelyerT 4 months ago
An old tutor went to hospital with neck ache. They told him he slept funny. Turns out it was a tumour. Was paraplegic in less than 24 hours. Massive pay out. Was on the news.
David Morgan 4 months ago
Nonsense - a tumour that grows so fast it paralysed someone in a few days (assuming they waited a couple of days after the pain started)? Have you been watching Akira?
Load More Replies... Tams21 4 months ago
When I was in hospital, they were about to take my roommate out to do a procedure that was meant for me and given her underlying health issues, would have caused huge problems a an operation to reverse. It was only my and her adamant and very firm insistence that they were making a mistake that got the to double check. I dread to think what would have happened if either of us had been drowsy from medication or too ill to to make a fuss.
Kylie 4 months ago (edited)
I went in for an op to place a stent in my right leg where they feed it through the top of your left leg. Surgeon when closing somehow managed to connect vein to artery resulting in zero blood flow in left leg. Found out 2 weeks later after follow up ultrasound. Emergency surgery next morning to rectify. Now have constant swollen left leg and severe stasis dermatitis annd what was my 'good leg' is now my 'bad one' Surgeon admitted fault and the practice wouldn't let him do the follow up operation. Considering suing.
Pheebs 4 months ago
This will be downvoted to hell, but I trust my Chiropractor more than I trust most medical professionals. My chiro has never adjusted me wrong, will refuse to do adjustments if she thinks they could cause an issue, and has helped me go to appropriate doctors for issues when GPs have failed. (If a chiro adjusts you without checking you over, or at least a CT, get a new chiro.) I’ve had far too many years of so called doctors telling me I’m fat when I developed severe stomach issues (which caused the weight gain and turned out to be actual medical problems), dismissing issues, or generally not listening. Not to mention pill pushing when I don’t want them, refusing to establish baseline bloodwork. I can go on.
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