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The Hospital Stay From Hell
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Lisa Lindell has posted on TortDeform a first person account of a hospital stay that went very, very wrong. Here are some excerpts:
Hospitals Are Not As Safe As You Think They Are
I was baptized by fire during my husband's 108-day hospitalization. He was admitted to one of the finest hospitals in our country following a burn injury.I knew he was in a great facility because I have absorbed all the PR and advertising touting their wonderful and caring treatment for years. We were humbled and grateful he was being treated there.
The reality is quite a bit different. As an accountant I had no medical experience but trusted he was in good hands. That trust was slowly eroded by repeated instances of their failure to provide even the most basic care adequately. Obvious signs of decline in the patient were ignored and he was left to rot. Additional complications and threats to his survival continued to be heaped upon him by reckless and sloppy medical care. The entire experience quickly became a battle for his life; my sister and I vs. the healthcare providers.
If there were a deadly organism in your child's school the building would be evacuated and sterilized. If I showed my husband the same level of neglect at home, I'd have a criminal record. Why does this continue to be allowed in our healthcare facilities? Surgical site errors, drug errors, misdiagnosis, mistakes, recklessness; who's protecting us? There's no incentive to deliver quality care to the patient and nobody is accountable to the patient.
The regulatory and accreditation facilities aren't working for you, they're working for their customer, the hospital. Physicians are accountable to their insurance carrier or attorney, everybody except you. The hospital is guided by their bottom-line, not taking care of you. Nurses are overhead and the fewer they can put on the floor, the better. Have healthcare costs declined as a result of malpractice caps? I didn't think so.
My husband survived, no thanks to world-class medical care. I'm sure they chalk him up in the "win" column, when in reality his hospital experience was a total failure and the most terrifying experience of my life. If he would have died, it would have been classified as "complications" from his injury when in fact it would have been as a result of his treatment. Our healthcare system is in crisis and it's only a matter of time before you or yours need care, be prepared for hard work.
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