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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.
Ellie Ahmed 5 months ago
Something similar happened in my country a couple years ago. A patient had kidney cancer and they took out the wrong kidney. Turned out to be a massive c**k-up where the pathologist who confirmed the cancer made a typo on their report and labelled the sample as being from the wrong side. That still shouldn't have resulted in the wrong kidney being taken out - there was lots of other paperwork where it was listed correctly, and somebody should have picked up on the discrepancy - but everyone basically dropped the ball hard.
Tommy DePaul 4 months ago (edited)
A more general comment after having read about a third of these: have we slipped so low as a society that we randomly add the "f" word to sentences where it doesn't further understanding? Or are you just adding these comments while riding a bus in an inner city? I've been an attorney and a therapist and I would refuse to treat you further if you used such language in my presence. Go ahead and sue me.
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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.
zububonsai 5 months ago (edited)
As someone who's first child's water broke, followed by 24 hours of zero contractions or anything, then correct numbing (yep, worked here) and emergency C-section (after 24 hours doctors don't find the situation funny anymore)... ouch. and, yes.
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Mindie Goodrich 4 months ago
OMG This happened to me too! My water broke the on a Monday morning, they didn't believe me but put me in a room and didn't come back for about 8 hours. When they did, both the baby and I were extremely dehydrated. They pumped me full of fluids, but ended up having to perform an emergency C-Section on Tuesday morning to save both of us because my heart rate started to drop significantly. When they started cutting into my stomach - I screamed because I could feel it. They put a mask on me and next thing I knew I woke up post-surgery. Terrifying experience. My son is now 35 years old.
Donna Harris 2 weeks ago
I went in for an emergency c section when I was thirty two weeks...they were giving me oxygen, the doctor thought they were putting me under. She stuck the scalpel in, I yelled that I was awake....they put me under and she saved my boys life!
#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 5 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.
Rosemary . 5 months ago
I've done it twice so I feel for you both. Do not recommend.
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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
Bored Sailor 5 months ago
Some doctors have coping mechanisms during surgery, it is their job but still very stressful. I do not think this is bad, just how they maintain themselves.
Alexia 5 months ago (edited)
I was told this usually happens after waking up from anesthesia - patient say weird things, until they regain full control of their minds and bodies. My orthopedist made fun of how I told a sort of fantasy story, complimented nurse's purple hair (she was actually blonde) and also "predicted" an earthquake - right after my knee surgery 😃
Fellfromthemoon 5 months ago
Something tells me this was something OP dreamt during/after the surgery.
Mindie Goodrich 4 months ago
I woke up during surgery and tried to sit up and started screaming. They freaked out and knocked me back out.
Roni Stone 5 months ago
I remember absolutely nothing from my hysterectomy and ovarian cyst surgery. The doc said I became a bit alert and said I was glad I'd be able to see my feet again. LOL
#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.
Gerry Higgins 5 months ago
If the autopsy showed that result you would win the case. Their lack of records does not show a proof of competence.
Sarah 5 months ago
Doesn’t the Anaesthetist always have their own notes? ( know from Personal friend.. surgeon had nothing in his notes of the. ‘Accident ‘ that occurred mid survey . but the anaesthetic did and documented what happened
Vylnce NA 4 months ago
Most of the Cath labs I have worked in don't have anesthesiologists. The nurses do sedation. However, that being the case, they document sedation levels, d***s given, and vitals. They wouldn't have documented what the cardiologist was doing.
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BarBeeGirl 5 months ago
My great great grandfather was the Burke of Burke and hare. We had a sailboat my dad named Burke’s Hare
Svenne O'Lotta 4 months ago
Welp that's almost exactly what happened to my boyfriend's mom. Standard test thing for her epilepsy with a tiny camera in her brain. Doctor was bad at his job, ruptured a vein, she died from the aneurysm. Deleted her records, no punishment for the doctor and no insurance payout.
#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.
Heather W 5 months ago
Me too. Fun fact" I have no idea what the reaction is. It was in my medical records, which they somehow lost half of when I changed doctors years ago. My Mom passed when I was 25 and my Dad had no idea. All I can tell them is I know I'm deathly allergic to most molds. And the last time I was exposed to a lot I had a severe asthma attack and couldn't breathe. That usually shuts down any suggestion of trying it.
Load More Replies... Gerry Higgins 5 months ago
Just because you have Munchhausen doesn't mean you aren't really sick.
KatSaidWhat 3 months ago
Problem is that when you really are sick, your history brings a side order of scepticism. Source: my mother and her other daughter.
Load More Replies... Kylie 5 months ago
usually when you say you're allergic to a med thay ask what the reactions are.
Load More Replies... Maria Maria 5 months ago
Both my kids are allergic to penicillin, along with 1/7 people. It's hardly rare.
Vylnce NA 4 months ago
It's actually increasingly rare. Older penicillin production methods left traces of mold and such in the d**g, which people often reacted to. Modern "cleaner" production methods make a purer d**g that many people (who might have reacted in the 80s or 90s) will not react to now. Generally, if people "got a rash", it might be worth trying. For people who experience anaphylaxis, it isn't worth the risk.
Load More Replies... Lisa Claire Bligh 2 weeks ago
As a person who is also my family will hunt you all down till the end of your bloodline
KatSaidWhat 3 months ago
And then she was no longer a doctor, I hope. That said, my mother has been given placebo drips because she was in fact munchausen.
FranSinclair 5 months ago
Im allergic to benadryl and prednisone. Always have been and they put a braclet on me to show it. I recently went for a procedure and was immediately allergic, so the emergency room hit me with BOTH. It took me like 2 months to start getting back to normal.
Bi.Felicia 5 months ago
Wow, you're allergic to Benadryl?! What are the odds, the med that is commonly given to treat an allergic reaction, causes you to actually have an allergic reaction or exacerbates a different allergy that you're also reacting to? So what do they typically use to treat any allergic reaction you may have?
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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.
General Anaesthesia 5 months ago
The US spends more on "healthcare" per capita than any other country on earth. That, of course, includes all countries with universal healthcare. So maybe extra taxes only if you keep it for-profit, as in for CEOs, corporations and insurers.
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Maria Maria 5 months ago
Thank God I live in Sweden and don't have to experience the American Healthcare nightmare
tori Ohno 5 months ago
This must have been awhile ago because they can't deny you medical care because of no health insurance. At least in my state they can't.
Snackmachine 5 months ago
They have loopholes and ways of slithering around giving care
Load More Replies... Donna Harris 2 weeks ago
The waiting room at the Doctors was full to bursting in a small northern community. Some guy showed up with a dog with a broken leg. Everyone had to wait as the dog got rushed ahead of everyone. Pretty sure he did it for free..Where is the freakin' humanity in our health care systems?? Cold
John Dilligaf 5 months ago
sadly this is going to start happening more and more in the "greatest country on Earth"
#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
David 5 months ago
I know someone who went their father was in the hospital and they felt the hospital wasn't taking it seriously enough, they gave the head nurse on the floor her business card to contact her anytime if anything went wrong...she was a lawyer who worked as a firm that sued insurance companies for things like medical malpractice. Her father got VIP treatment after that subtle message
Just stopping by 4 months ago
I'm happy her father for treated far better though it's a shame that it came to that, and I feel bad for the families that aren’t able to do that
Load More Replies... Shari Jones 1 month ago
I had a dr ingore my stroke level high blood pressure for over a year. Hospitals sent me home too with no tests when I came in with chest pains and shortness of breathe.
Roni Stone 5 months ago
That sounds like something personal. Serious don't-give-a-f,,k attitude on that doctor's part.
#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. 😭
sbj 5 months ago
No amount of money can compensate for the massive life changes that you and your family have to face because of their negligence
Ms.GB 5 months ago (edited)
Especially a half million...That's a pretty small price to pay for giving a newborn baby a lifelong handicap!
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Bewitched One 5 months ago (edited)
I don’t know why or How a doctor would be inside someone’s mother and looking for the soft spot just poking around. They’d have gotten a much bigger lawsuit settlement for literally blinding someone. Plus they say “eye” and yet fully blind? Don’t buy it
Roxanne D'souza 5 months ago
I was a C section baby and while they were reaching inside for me/getting me out - unclear on exact details, they managed to cut me up near my eyebrow. I was born bleeding and was taken in for stitches immediately. We're brown, in a Middle Eastern country and the hospital was an American one. My parents at that time didn't know they could sue, and my mom never would have anyway. Their entire hospital fee was either comped or free. I again don't remember. But I have the scar to show.
zububonsai 5 months ago (edited)
Mildly sceptical on this again because my fact check came up empty again. Can't find any case - if any Panda is Bored enough to dig deeper than me and find out this is a true story, please share here 🥰, thanks in advance.
BookFanatic 5 months ago
Surgeon used forceps to deliver my friend. Pinched/pulled too hard and ended up doing something that caused partial paralysis and mental issues on him. Settlement was a couple mil.
Shortstuff 1 month ago
Half a million dollars doesn't go far over a lifetime of say, 85 years.
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”
Gerry Higgins 5 months ago
Dr. had a date and wanted to get it over with. Some patients are so inconsiderate and just take their time birthin babies.
Bi.Felicia 5 months ago
So this just made me question a similar situation that I went through. I was pregnant with my second of 2 sons and I developed a medical condition in my third trimester. My OB/GYN recommended that I come in to be induced right at 37 weeks. I come in the night prior around 8pm to start the induction and they start some meds to try to induce the early symptoms of labor. My doctor came to see me the next morning and wasn't too happy that I haven't progressed fast enough for him, at 2.5cm dilated. While he's examining me he takes it upon himself to break my water, which caused the placenta to abrupt. This is when the placenta essentially disconnects, meaning my baby isn't getting oxygen, while I am bleeding profusely. I got rushed back for an emergency C-section, it all happened so quick I barely had time to call my mom to tell her what's happening. I hang up as I hear people counting something (likely tools needed for surgery) as the anesthesiologist is telling me they are about..
Bi.Felicia 5 months ago (edited)
(2/2) to put me to sleep and to count backwards down from 10. When I finally came to, I awoke to no baby, my husband in a chair and I'm in excruciating pain. These dumb fcuksticks didn't even have me hooked up to any pain meds, so I start going off on them, while some moron had no clue wtf she was doing. All the while I'm in agony, screaming for them to get someone who knows wtf they're doing and get these meds going. Ya know my abdomen wasn't just sliced open or anything and the staff even threatened me with not seeing my baby, (which I still had no idea if he was okay or not), if I didn't calm down. Finally learn that my son was a little on the small side but otherwise okay, even though some anesthesia did get passed on to him, he didn't require the NICU. I lost so much blood that I needed a blood transfusion. Fortunately we both recovered and were discharged. All because my OB/GYN was in a rush to be somewhere else, we both could have died. So Pandas, Is my situation similar? TIA
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Enuya 5 months ago (edited)
What does "breaking someone's water" mean? I'm asking seriously, English isn't my first language
Sarah 5 months ago (edited)
As far as I’m aware, it refers to the amniotic fluid which protects the baby during pregnancy . When it breaks ‘the fluid/water.. it’s a sign the baby is on its way and is first signs of being in labour. The lady will feel the fluid and will know
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Ge Po 5 months ago
Performing a medical procedure on a person who is awake, sound of mind and body and clearly stated they do not want you to do so, is a*****t, yes.
Load More Replies... #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.
Nilsen 5 months ago
A couple of years ago a toddler (2 y.o?) was given an adult dose. Same result....
Ms.GB 5 months ago (edited)
Omg! How does one go on with their life when they make such a grave error resulting in a death. Especially the death of a child. I think I would change my will to benefit the family and then....you know.
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BookFanatic 5 months ago
D**n. I nearly got someone else's chemo once. They didn't double-check like they were supposed to and the only reason it was caught is because I said "why is it red instead of yellow?" Ye gods.
Apachebathmat 5 months ago
My sister in law had it put in the wrong vein, it pooled in her hand and started to rot away from the inside!
Donna Harris 2 weeks ago
My husbands aunt had cancer, they were treating her with radiation..they apparently left the radiation in too long and burned her stomach out. I didn't think it was possible. They sued and won their case after several years.
KatSaidWhat 3 months ago (edited)
My a*****e chronic alcoholic "friend" once tried to tell me he had been admitted for emergency chemo and it was green sludge. Mate, I've been working for doctors for a very long time, including for an oncologist. Wanted us to visit. we declined. He convinced some other "friends" (enablers) to go visit him and he got booted out of hospital because they had admitted him for alcohol withdrawal as he had no money and they took in vodka (saw the discharge papers, ended that relationship really quickly).
#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 5 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.
KatSaidWhat 3 months ago
Had to think about that for a moment and my weird a*s brain pictured chain mail undies before realising underwire bra...
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Clown fish 5 months ago
If it's a modern pacemaker it wouldn't matter as they are made out of none magnetic materials
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Lin Andrews 5 months ago
They ask you before you go into the machine, OR you're looking at some Final destination s**t
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
FlamingoPanda 5 months ago
Hospital staff, family and others line the hospital hallways as the deceased is taken to the operating theatre for organ donation.
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Kelley Walker 3 months ago
I work in a hospital that does honor walks. Everyone was gathered in the hallway waiting for the patient. We see the doors open and everyone gets real quiet. They start rolling the guy towards the OR, no family with him, which seemed kind of sad, but it happens. Suddenly, the guy lifts his head and looks around and goes, "WTF?" He was just going for surgery. The honor walk patient came out a few minutes later. :)
jalyc 1 month ago
Candidates must be kept "alive" for viable transplants. No real surprise if the brain wakes up.
Load More Replies... Donna Harris 2 weeks ago
Horrifying....but I've seen a lot of things in the nursing home that are sad and yet hilarious at the same time. Went to wake a resident up (she was 93 and deaf) she couldn't hear me so I was gently touching her...she never moved. I took a mirror and was holding it under her nose to see if she was still with me....she opened her eyes and screamed. I almost had a heart attack myself.
BrownEyedGrrl 5 months ago
This is why I'm no longer an organ donor. This, and the fact that none of my organs are suitable for transplant.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
I will be an organ donor when I die. It's a Wurlitzer.
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#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
Alexia 5 months ago
C section without anesthesia?? Sorry but in some countries, this is illegal. And inhuman.
Maria Maria 5 months ago
I don't even understand how many of these things I'm reading could possibly have happened in developed countries.
Michael Largey 5 months ago
When I was a kid, my dentist thought he could just yank out a loose tooth without (a) anesthetic or (b) telling me in advance. When he was buried years later, I bet he still had my bite marks on his fingers.
KatSaidWhat 3 months ago
My dentist gave me the choice of hospital stay and extraction or a fuckload of local anaesthetic and pliers in the chair right there for wisdom tooth. Chose the latter. Went to play football that night and got hit in the face, it looked like a horror movie 😆
Load More Replies... BrownEyedGrrl 5 months ago
I spiked a fever after abdominal surgery and was taken for a scan; I had a blood clot. My doctor came in my room with 4 nurses. The nurses held me down while the doctor cut me open & removed the clot. One of the nurses had to leave to throw up. She told me later that he does this all the time & thinks he's God.
#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.
WindySwede 5 months ago
That's why it feels like a $2 permanent marker is a good investment and write, "WRONG SIDE!". Don't know if medically compatible, so don't sue me..! 🤷♂️
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The Starsong Princess 5 months ago
My sister had her knee replaced. Prior to the operation, the surgeon visited her and confirmed the knee being done. He marked with a sharpie and they both initialled it. He confirmed again in the operating room before she received the anesthesia. She would not have cared if he did the wrong knee as they were equally bad (she had the second one done a few months later) but the effort he made was comforting.
KieLeaHar 3 months ago
I trained professional should be able to, yes. But this doctor was clearly incompetent and sucked at their job so something went wrong. They shouldn’t be a doctor. I don’t think they should even be a mortician at this rate. I wouldn’t trust him to work on deceased bodies.
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Gerry Higgins 5 months ago
Guess who went to the head of the line for a lung transplant free of charge
Shortstuff 1 month ago
Case years ago the wrong leg was amputated. That is why they now paint a limb bright yellow.
"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 😅
All profits to charity 5 months ago
Cut off baby’s finger *while* cutting off the hospital bracelet. Nursing student. Scissors were long and she accidentally cut the end of the baby’s finger off. Made national news in the US
tori Ohno 5 months ago
I shouldn't laugh at that, but I did. Am I a bad person?
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Madison Taylor 5 months ago
Why is there a laughing emoji at the end of this? That is terrible!
KatSaidWhat 3 months ago
It's only funny if it's not you is the rule of the internet.
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#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
spacer 5 months ago
its honestly scary how little people care about allergies and keep thinking people are lying like what
SkippyJohnJones29 3 months ago
that's because people DO lie, A LOT about d**g allergies. I mean, it should always be taken seriously... but patients lie a lot for many stupid reasons.
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NJ P 5 months ago
Why would anyone lie about allergies to medicine? What would be the purpose?
Tim Douglass 4 months ago
Only reason I know of is that people will lie that they are allergic to all non-narcotic painkillers in order to get the strong stuff.
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I am anaphylactic with Sulphur d***s. Dr prescribed a d**g. Told Pharmacist about my anaphylaxis. He looked up in the d**g Bible...no sulphur. He said come back in 30 minutes as he would double check with the manufacturer overseas. He looked stunned when I returned, yes sulphur in the d**g! It wasn't in the formula in the d**g book. Lucky to have such an efficient pharmacist. Love that guy!
whiterabbit 5 months ago
That's crazy an anesthesiologist would do that. Some patients do falsely report an allergy. Not necessarily on purpose but they will often think their negative, and often times common, reaction is an allergy, i.e. a patient reporting an epinephrine allergy because it makes their heart race, or a benadryl allergy because it made them extremely tired. But even if you highly doubt the patient you ALWAYS make them get an allergy test if the medication in question is one you need to administer.
#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.
Orange Frosting 5 months ago
Not sure why you were down voted. I don't know what an RT is, either. I hate reading things and being expected to know medical abbreviations.
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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 🫠
Sage 5 months ago
Many women need a D&C after birth, as you sometimes need to clean out some leftover tissue. I have never heard of the placenta being left inside. The body tends to push it out naturally.
Tegan Frid 4 months ago
Retained placenta is uncommon, but dangerous. This is why they are supposed to check that you've delivered the whole placenta after giving birth.
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Clown fish 5 months ago
I call bs on this one you'd be dead with in a day from blood loss. From the person who had a placenta that only a 5 cm peace was missing from and I had to have a blood transfusion with in 30 mins from the bleeding
Cheese 5 months ago
Dilation and curettage. It's basically the procedure in which tissue is removed from the uterus.
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ThePinwormsrock 5 months ago
Same thing happened to me. Military hospital in th 90s. I started hemmoraging when i tried to stand up about an hour later. Took emergency d&c and about 4 transfusions to bring me back. Doc had been working for 40 hours previous.
Patsy Robins 2 weeks ago
They didn’t “leave it inside”, you had retained products. Placentas don’t always come out cleanly, and even with close inspection it can be impossible to tell. Often it’s shreds of membrane left behind.
Amy Force 1 month ago
my OB went right in after mine fist and all, and pulled it out. It SUCKED but I knew it had to be done. It was like, "Oh, just gave birth? SORE? Here, lets do it in REVERSE NOW!" But she was a *Good* OB, kept me from tearing or having to getting cut b/c she took the time and patience to slowly stretch the perineum.
Cecile Lowrey 2 months ago
I was left with an about a 2 or 3 inch piece of placenta after the premature birth of a baby at 24 wks. 6 weeks later I woke in a pool of blood and 3 bath towels of blood before we got to the hospital. I was very sick.
Bekah 3 months ago
I had my baby last year and I’m not kidding when I say I was bleeding for over 3 months straight. I kept googling and asking is this normal, finally scheduled me to see the doctor after it got heavy again and they told me it was just my period. I still bled for two more weeks before it finally stopped.
#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
Mada57 5 months ago
My wife was turned away 3 times from the ER with a "migraine" that turned out to be a massive heart attack. Luckily a resident performed a minor test and found it.
Janet Sparrow 5 months ago
I had that happen to me once when they said I only wanted narcotics. B***h, I’m 75 years old. Have you ever seen me in here before trying to get d***s? Plus I think I can get d***s on my own thanks.
Roni Stone 5 months ago
I have only just been put on the good stuff for my spinal stenosis. I'm 70. Not a doctor one would give me any actual pain meds. My insurance changed and I was given a new doctor who immediately said it was ridiculous that I had to sit down every 5 minutes when much of the pain could be alleviated with a pill. "Just don't sell any."
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#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. 🤷♀️
Pandaodboredem22 4 months ago
My uncle had a brain tumor removed, a later scan revealed at had grown back. Surgeon went back in, they left a sponge in during the first surgery.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
How does that happen? Surely a tumour looks different to healthy tissue?
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.
Howisitmondayalready 5 months ago
Not quite the same but my gallbladder decided to turn on me during Covid - had to be taken to A&E during work day, I was literally doubled over in pain and couldn’t catch my breath enough to speak so friend came in with me to give my details, she was brusquely told she couldn’t be there even though she was masked up and had sterilised her hands. Empathy and bedside manner - zero 😡
BrownEyedGrrl 5 months ago
IMO, having gallstones is the worst pain ever, including labor.
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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…
Lady Chelsea (LadyChelseaoftheVoid) 5 months ago
if a doctor told me that after delivering a stillborn child, I'd be becoming a f*lon, if you know what I mean 😬
YakFactory 3 months ago
Who has the right to pretend to be the moral police? How sad for the lady involved.
#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
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
I wonder, since that implies that the person was not committing acts with purposeful intent. This student nurse was ABSOLUTELY acting with purposeful intent. She may not have intended to harm/k!ll the patient, but she was told not to do anything, but took actions anyway, willfully and with intent, that led directly to the patient's death.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 4 months ago
I have heard of this happing a few times now. Having had brothers with nasogastric (and later PEG) tubes, I can't understand how you make the mistake. NG tubes are usually a different colour to IV tubes, and a completely different position! Either way, if you are smart enough to get into nursing, you should be smart enough to listen when told to not do anything!
Scotira 5 months ago (edited)
PO= per os (oral) medication should have gone in the NGT (naso gastric tube) going into the stomach but the student nurse gave the crushed med/ water mix into the central catheter pushing it directly into the blood.
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#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 5 months ago
Why do I have a horrible feeling about who "certain people" is referencing?
Winter 5 months ago
I don't think you have to guess too hard... the old, the disabled, the mentally impaired... you know "useless" people!
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#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.
KatSaidWhat 3 months ago
Yeah, I'm all for quality > quantity when it comes to life but I also want a second informed opinion before making that decision...
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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.
Phae Thompson 4 months ago
I had a cousin whose kidneys were crystallized by Mayo Clinic's "clean-out" d***s before a colonoscopy. She wound up getting a transplant and a six-figure settlenent out of it.
#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 5 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.
Tim Douglass 4 months ago
Mistakes, incompetence, and willful cruelty happen in every realm of human endeavor. If you have people involved there will always be that fringe. Well over 99.9% of medical interactions are professional and capable (not always fully successful or with perfect skill or knowledge, but within acceptable norms). These are the far outliers and while they often represent individuals who are incompetent and need to be removed from medicine, they should not be considered an indictment of all medical personnel and facilities.
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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 🙃
Kylie 5 months ago
It would help if these posters didn't assume so much kbnowledge from non medical readers.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
I'm a non-medical person and I can parse this just from knowing what words mean. Postpartum = after birth. NICU = neonatal intensive care unit (hospital ward for babies that are sick or fragile or need intensive care/medical support.) Skin to skin = when you lay a newborn directly on their mother's skin to help with the bonding process (I believe it also has a positive physical effect.) So, basically, a nurse was supposed to give medication to a new mother who was spending time with their newborn during skin-to-skin contact. Instead of injecting the medication into the mother's IV line, the nurse injected the medication into the infant's IV line, thus giving a baby an adult dose of whatever the medication was.
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Huddo's sister 4 months ago
They were in NICU, meaning premature baby, so they usually need IV meds
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#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 5 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 😂
Crystal M 5 months ago
A sentinal event is a serious, unexpected occurance invilving death, permanent harm, or or severe harm to a patient not related to their illness. ET= endotacheal tube (breathing tube), when tube feed meant to go into the stomach goes into the lungs, the patient drowns.
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Jessica Robinson 5 months ago
I have heard of cases where a tube feed was administered in the IV rather than the NG tube. The administration ports looked somewhat similar (at least the did then). Mistaking a feeding tube for an ET tube is astounding. Either they had to disconnect the patient from the ventilator and push a feeding directly into their tube, or they had to connect it to the port on a suction catheter which looks nothing like a feeding tube. Astounding negligence. https://www.starship.org.nz/guidelines/suctioning-inline-circuit/
Razill 5 months ago
They ran nutrition (tube feeds) into the respitoey breathing tube (ET) filling the lungs w thinga that sgouldnt be there. Its a sentinel event because this absolutely should never happen
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago
Ideally. Hopefully the kid's at least ok, though this is less than ideal even for an adult...
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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 5 months ago
Two weeks out of cold storage? You’d smell it before you saw it. I call BS
Tussilago 5 months ago
Hospital lost my dead baby. He went for a autopsy nd never returned. I called and called. Autopsy said they semt him to morgue, mourge said he never arrived . 5 months later I was in for a early mc and cried a lot. A angry nurse set out to find him. He was in a morgue in the wrong city. The coffin hd my info on it but their routin was that they never call, its my responsibility to pick him up. But I didnt know he was there. An assistant had seen that I had given the baby a home made bracelet and stuffed animal. She was certain something was wrong. She wasnt allowed to call me, but she kept the baby safe (they where supposed to cremate and spread the ashes for unclaimed bodies after a month. I ran down there straight after I was out of the OB ward. Got the coffin and refused to let go. I drove him to the funeral home myself.
AutumnGirl 5 months ago
I'm so so so sorry they all put you in such a horrible situation.
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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 😫
Anthony Elmore 5 months ago (edited)
My question is how to I get the hospital to send me my severed limbs if I ever have any removed. The price of human bone is ridiculously high, and they're just throwing them away like they grow-... Alright, they win this round.
Load More Replies... Sage 5 months ago
Really? I had to convince the doctor to let my daughter keep her just-removed IUD (don't ask - she collects oddities) because of the biological waste issue. I can't imagine anyone is removing an arm and then taking the time to package it carefully with the patient's belongings.
Huddo's sister 4 months ago
Yeah, they don't usually keep the belongings bags in the OR where they would be putting the limb into a biowaste bag, so seems very unlikely. My sister was sad, they wouldn't let her take her wisdom teeth home when they were removed.
Load More Replies... RomanceRadish 5 months ago
Perhaps it was severed before arrival to hospital, someone brought it along in hopes it could be reattached but no such luck, and the bag it was in got mixed into personal belongings. It's a stretch and a lot of projection, but plausible.
Astrobloom (she/they) 4 months ago
Good job, trauma center. You just gave that family permanent trauma
S Pol 2 months ago
I believe it. Serious trauma, in a crazily busy trauma center, a limb is packed in a bag. In the chaos ,that bag ends up in with other stuff because someone didn't look in the bag, just stuffed everything together because they're clearing the room for next patient. It's not right, but in a trauma center, it's patients coming in in a steady stream.
S Pol 2 months ago
It can happen. In my training as a nursing supervisor, they told me before giving to family, ALWAYS look in the belongings bag of a deceased patient. (We sometimes have to retrieve belongings from the morgue. ) The supervisor told me she thought the bag felt very heavy and the amputated lower leg was in there.
#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) 5 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
primeline31 5 months ago
Neighbor's adult daughter went into the hospital for gallbladder removal. Surgery was on a Friday & the doctor was not in the hospital for the weekend. The surgeon had not closed the bile duct and over the weekend, bile flowed over her internal organs. It was discovered on Monday. A number of days later (I don't recall how long, it was 10+ yrs ago) she did not survive.
ROSESARERED 3 months ago
Student doctor cut my liver while removing my gall bladder. Instead of in overnight, I was kept in for 3 days, 2 weeks home to recover before going back to work, became 7 weeks. Hurt to breathe, vomited up bike for a week.
#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 5 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.
jalyc 1 month ago
Exactly! NEVER a nurse's decision because we only follow the DOCTOR'S orders. Sadly, the public can be so ignorant.
Load More Replies... Tommy DePaul 4 months ago
These are starting to sound like stories Beverly often tells on "the Goldbergs".
Shortstuff 4 months ago
My husband had had several heart attacks and 3 stents. I took him to A and E with chest pains. They kept him in the observation ward for 2 days...didn't do any tests. Rang to tell me to collect him as his obs were fine. As we walked away from his bed, he collapsed. He had a total blockage and another stent. Later, a nurse said he was lucky it happened in the hospital as he would have died if it happened at home. When I told her he had been discharged with no tests, she was speechless.
#35
My old anatomy professor at my community college was a former surgeon that had left instruments in his patients… multiple times…
Jamie Peterson 5 months ago
Count. The. Sharps. Count the Instruments. Basic techniques that always work!!
Rinso The Red 5 months ago
"Surgical instruments are unintentionally left inside patients at a rate of approximately 1 in every 5,000 inpatient surgeries. This translates to an estimated 1,500 cases annually in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) | (.gov). " -google
Kelley Walker 3 months ago
Sadly, this isn't terribly unusual. Sponges get left in more than they should too.
#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.
Shortstuff 4 months ago
We had a case locally. 34 year old lady with 4 children. Went to the Dr 4 times over 6 months with severe fatigue. She had no tests done. Her husband went with her the 5th time and insisted on testing. She had cancer and died 6 months later. If it was caught when she went for her first visit, she had a 95% chance of survival after treatment. The Dr is still practicing.
#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.
Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
This I can believe. I've seen it in the SNF (convalescent hospital) where my wife worked. The nursing assistant was instructed to do something stupid like this by her supervisor, an RN (!). Also I've seen patients who were temporarily sent back to the acute hospital for treatment, then return to the SNF with stage IV decubitus ulcers (skin so degraded that the bone is visible through the wound.) This also happens a LOT! So if you have a relative in a SNF, and if they have to go back to hospital, photograph every area that could get a bedsore: elbows, shoulder, and especially the bony hips. The SNF won't sue or even report it because they want future referrals from the hospital.
Bgray450 1 month ago
My first night shift after being trained as a nurse's aide (back in 1974) an orderly was showing me the ropes. We had 4 patients to a room. Fool sat in the middle of the room with a clipboard and pointed to each one in turn saying "Let's see, 98.4, BP 120/86". Never took a real vital. I wish I'd had the guts to turn him in. I was so young and inexperienced, but I made sure I never did that.
Tracey Stammers 2 months ago (edited)
OK; I have so many shocking stories after 42 yrs nursing, this made my jaw drop!
#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) 5 months ago
How do you puncture the small intestine during colonoscopy even? Colonoscopy is normally the large intestine only
Aileen Grist 5 months ago
The large intestine is around the small intestine - they must have gone through both walls
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SteelyDan 3 months ago
In 2012 I had a routine colonoscopy. No issues, polyps or diverticulum found. Three weeks later I was doubled over in pain. Went straight to the ER. They thought I had appendicitis initially and did a CT scan immediately. Doc came back ten mins later with a tray of IV antibiotics and said they had to admit me because I had a perforation and infection had my white blood cell count over 25,000. I was in for five days, got out, and the infection returned a week later. Back in the hospital, cleared up the infection but had to have to lower 10” removed (sigmoid colectomy) a month later. All because the GI guy nicked the inside of my colon. No lawsuit though. Disclosures and consent cover all their liability on what’s essentially an invasive procedure and the benefits of early detection far outweigh the risks.
#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
OneHappyPuppy 5 months ago
Internally decapitating sounds horrific in this context and makes for an unpleasant image but it actually means that he snapped the babies necks, rendering them quadriplegic. Not that it makes things any better
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#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.
Sally Moen 5 months ago
Not checking on a patient in a full 12-hour shift seems impossible in a hospital. In a nursing home maybe
Christina A Davis 4 months ago
NOT READING ANYMORE!!! PEOPLE THINK WE HAVE A MEDICAL DEGREE TO UNDERSTAND TERMINOLOGY!!
jalyc 1 month ago
This article is very clear! "... asked fellow medical workers to share the most shocking hospital mistakes ..." medical workers and hospitals! It's not for elementary school issues so reasonable people would expect us to use COMMON medical jargon.
Load More Replies... tori Ohno 5 months ago
If that 206 is fahrenheit, that patient lost a lot of brain cells, or maybe their life. 105 is where cell begin dying.
#42
New grad hooked up tube feed to a dialysis permcath. Patient died 😬 Still can’t figure out how she got them connected.
Angela Jester 4 months ago
Yes, my grandmother was on dialysis near the end of her life. Her port (a permanent IV site) was placed directly into an artery in her arm via surgery. We'd have to check it a few times a day for what they called the "Thrill" which was the feeling of the blood rushing through it to make sure there were no clots developing. It's hard to describe the feeling, something between a mild electric shock and feeling water through a thin high pressure hose but even that doesn't really describe it because there's an emotional component to it as well.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 4 months ago
All these 'mixed up' tube events must have taken effort- they don't all have the same size tubes or ports or anything
#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
Bryn 5 months ago
I'm sorry for the OP's father, but that may not be the fault of the EMT's. Could be the closer hospital was closed to trauma, the EMTs weren't contracted there (some cities, EMTs can only go to certain hospitals). Its horrible (thanks USA healthcare) but it's not always a choice of which hospital emts' go to.
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
All hospitals are not equal. As a heart patient, EMTs always take me to the hospital 30 minutes away, even though there's a hospital a mile from my house. The hospital further away is equipped to deal with all cardiac complications; the one closest to me is not.
RomanceRadish 5 months ago (edited)
It was probably their directive, either due to insurance or patient volume or specialties of each location. It still seems to defy common logic...
#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 - 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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.
spacer 5 months ago
my god no one is EVER too young for anything. just because the average person with these issues is something doesnt mean people below that age can never suffer any problems related to that. awful mindset
Auntriarch 5 months ago
I suffered from a rash (not life threatening but not much fun) for nearly ten months because apparently pityriasis lichenoides only affects children and men, not middle aged women. Eventually I saw a dermatologist who prescribed three months of antibiotics and it went.
Load More Replies... Sage 5 months ago
My father was 31 when a massive heart attack took him. My first (yes - first) heart attack happened in my mid-30s. Doctors dismissed me for a long time before it hit that head. Non-smoker/drinker. My last heart attack was supposed to k**l me, but I had a boss surgeon. Age is not a factor. Family history is a factor.
Spittnimage 5 months ago
I remember a 14-year-old boy died of a heart attack when I was in junior high.
Linda 2 months ago
My sister went in for severe pain on the right side of her chest . They did a few blood tests and told her it was not her heart. I told the doctor I had gall stones and this is exactly where my pain was. She said it was impossible. It was a slow night in the ER so after several attempts to persuade her to run a CT she relented. Gallstones- surgery was scheduled.
#48
Doctor did c section on patient who wasn’t even pregnant
JB 5 months ago (edited)
I understand your scepticism but this one’s true. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ReproductiveHealth/pregnant-mother-section-doctors-find-baby/story?id=10262881
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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.
spacer 5 months ago
how do you decide something like that over the phone tho? you have no way of verifying the person youre talking to is an actual relative or have a legal right to decide that.
Nikki Sevven 5 months ago
I call büllshit on this one. No hospital will pull the plug without a signed directive from next of kin or designated medical proxy.
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Madison Taylor 5 months ago
Im confused. So, the roommate was actually the one brain dead? Or, they called the roommates family? Like, what? How does the "turns out they mixed him.up w/ his roommate" explain anything?
#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) 5 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 5 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.
Rodriquez 1 month ago
They didn't post this here. You can't talk to them.
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#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!!!
Sage 5 months ago
Head first onto the floor from...the bed? Is it okay? That's kind of what people would like to know!
RomanceRadish 5 months ago
Sometimes during labor they have a mother squat on a big exercise ball.
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#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) 5 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.
Clown fish 5 months ago
Wow you are in a group of 5% of people who have more wisdom teeth than the normal 4
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Sam Todd 5 months ago
I had all 4 removed a good 25 years ago or so, and I somehow lost some memory from before the removal which I didn't know was possible. I recall getting a ride there from my friend who was going to take me home as well. I remember getting in her car, and the next thing, I woke up at home with a mouthful of blood and a splitting headache. She claims we spoke a lot while I waited which took awhile, and also talked almost the whole way back to my place. She said I told her I was okay and walked up to my door (I lived alone) and she saw me unlock the door and let myself in. I still doubt her entire scenario. I can't imagine what it would have been like had I attempted to drive.
spacer 5 months ago
why do you guys go overboard when pulling out your wisdom teeth? i pulled out two of them and just got some numbing to stop any pain. i biked my way home all fine with no issues. if you are being sedated you need to have someonw drive you there and back again, that was messed up of the dentist
Bewitched One 5 months ago
Some have to be CUT out. Because they aren’t through yet but causing crowding or broken teeth or other issues and pain. I had to be out under and has all four of mine cut out but the dentist or surgeon who did it wouldn’t have even done the procedure if I hadn’t had someone else they were able to meet and talk to there to drive me home
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Federal inmate escaped from my hospital… because a CO was sleeping while the other took a potty break 😅
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
CO = correctional officer. To wit, the guards who were supposed to be keeping an eye on the federal inmate XD
Clown fish 5 months ago
Don't they cuff them to the bed? They do in the UK
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#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.
Bi.Felicia 4 months ago
Firefighters are often trained paramedics as well and are capable of doing much more than extinguishing fires.
Load More Replies... RomanceRadish 5 months ago
I believe some locations say Emergency Department and others say Emergency Room.
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#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
Sage 5 months ago
You usually give IVs for heart burn? Here, they take blood first to see if an IV is necessary.
Cathy Mann 5 months ago
Most ERs take blood when they start the IV instead of taking blood and then poking them a second time for an IV, might as well just poke them once and get it all done
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Patient was in SVT. They defibrillated instead of doing a synchronized cardioversion. Patient went into v fib and died.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 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.")
Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
Thanks for the Valsalva maneuver. I'll keep this in mind if my heart starts racing.
Load More Replies... Claire Collymore 5 months ago
Does whoever posted this know that this isn’t a site for medical professionals. Please make your posts understandable for BP readers or don’t bother posting. I haven’t a clue what this post means.
JB 5 months ago (edited)
Do you know that these aren’t posts on BP? They are scraped from other sites, in this case, TikTok. By all means, go complain at the posters on TikTok; but you’re wasting your time asking folks who will never see your comment to “do better” here.
Load More Replies... #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) 5 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.
Earonn - 5 months ago
For my fellow Europeans and everyone else who needs the info - "Son of Sam" was the nickname of a serial killer in the 1970s.
T'Mar of Vulcan 5 months ago
David Berkowitz also known as the Son of Sam and the .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer and former U.S. Army soldier who committed a series of stabbings and shootings between 1975 and 1977 in New York City, killing six people and wounding eleven others. - Wikipedia
Load More Replies... #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) 5 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.
Fellfromthemoon 5 months ago
BS. Or an orthopedic surgeon and an abdominas surgeon traded places.
winterwidow87 5 months ago
I also call BS on this one. These two surgeries are in completely different areas and require two different surgeons.
#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.
Hobby Hopper 5 months ago
Exactly, surely it counts as "under duress" or "not of sound mind".
Load More Replies... winterwidow87 5 months ago
How can a clause signed while in an altered state be valid? Any half decent lawyer could have challenged that.
JB 5 months ago
Pretty meaningless post without an explanation for why it was the doctor’s fault. I’d have thought OP would know that bit of information?
Rodriquez 1 month ago
Knowing the why doesn't change the outcome does it.
Load More Replies... #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 5 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.
#80
Pt died in the waiting room and wasn’t noticed…for hours
Rodriquez 1 month ago
They didn't post this here. You can't ask them questions
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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 5 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.
Ace 5 months ago
Such apocryphal stories have been doing the rounds forever. Most popular versions involve a life-support machine and a vacuum cleaner. And like this one it's usually a third-hand account, a friend of a friend.
Load More Replies... Harry Gondalf 5 months ago
This is another urban legend. One that DID happen recently: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/27/us/janitor-alarm-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-lawsuit-new-york
Sally Moen 5 months ago
Those deep-freeze freezers do periodically beep, and make other alarm noises. However, the chance that a janitor was able to scoot behind a heavy piece of equipment and unplug it is nil. These things have techs walking around checking on them, working in the nearby labs, at all hours, and alarms are something they deal with. And if the power ever went off on its own, there's an alarm for that too. So yeah, its a highly unlikely scenario
Fellfromthemoon 5 months ago
These deep freezers have quite often a CO2-based emergency cooling system that can keep them cold for a day.
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Crystal Spencer 5 months ago
Right...Because this story is on every "facts you didn't know" list and all over the internet..
#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
Fellfromthemoon 5 months ago
An intravenous bolus (=in one gulp, not drop by drop) injection of potassium leads to a cardiac arrest, immediately. Kevorkian also used potassium chloride.
Load More Replies... #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 5 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 🥺
Ahnjunwan 5 months ago
I think at least half of the stories here are BS. Some things just could not have happened that way, the rest was 🤯
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
This one is plausible. Paralyzed patients sometimes lose sensation and she would not be able to move her body to dislodge the heating pack. Her skin could have sustained burns from it, which became infected.
Load More Replies... #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) 5 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 5 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
Kirsten Kerkhof 5 months ago
A little explanation would have helped, yes. Anyway, I Googled it, and it is a powerful muscle relaxer, used during surgery or mechanical ventilation.
Load More Replies... #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.
Bewitched One 5 months ago
Necrotizing faciitis is cause by a bacteria she would’ve had to be introduced to meaning the surgeon or nurses or instruments weren’t sterilized. Sounds made up just by the way they answered with ”I win”
#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) 5 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...
LakotaWolf (she/her) 5 months ago
Technically, "deadly" means "causing or able to cause death"; it doesn't literally mean "lethal". So a subdural hematoma is deadly - it CAN cause death, but it's not always lethal. Though I wonder if the commenter just meant to put in "POTENTIALLY deadly subdural hematoma".
Load More Replies... Madison Taylor 5 months ago
Is there a reason every other word was fully spelled out, but they decided to shorten "parents?"
#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 5 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 5 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
winterwidow87 5 months ago (edited)
I guess it's a twist on the common phrase "break a leg!" to wish someone good luck. Since the patient had broken legs who healed they were told to not break a leg.
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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
Sage 5 months ago
A stillborn would be in the morgue fridge, not in a ball of sheets tossed in a corner. What kind of third world hospital would do that? And if you are trying to say that they took the bundle out of the fridge, I call BS, because they don't open those.
Bewitched One 5 months ago
They said someone wrapped the baby in the sheets? And they said in the bay not the fridge. Though I still say it’s bs
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Stephanie L Thesing 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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.
Stephanie L Thesing 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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.
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