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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Medical REAL LIFE horror in the OR! Totally UNWARRANTED!
this is the largest mess I am seen in our medical society and just
continues to get worse by the moment! It is a testament to just how
fouled up we are with our medical situation in this nation. My questions
is HOW can VIALS of a medication that goes through many hands, from the
compounding pharmacy, to the hospitals pharmacy, to the nurses who pick
it up, to those who handle the vial in the OR, to even the main OR
nurse and the DOCTOR!!!!, and you mean to tell me NOT ONE person saw
"CRAP" floating around in a CLEAR VIAL of medication???? How can that
be??? So many people handle a vial of medication for injection like
that, thus missing some greenish black or white filament like stuff
floating in fluid that is supposed to be either clear or even if a
little cloudy when shaken etc... SOME ONE should have SEEN IT????? We
have TOO MANY PATIENTS, and doctors that SEE too may patients, they do
too many procedures daily, and that is why these kinds of mistakes are
not caught somewhere in the chain. BEFORE doctors had to FIGHT TO KEEP
ENOUGH MONEY TO HAVE A PRACTICE, any and all of the staff that saw those
"vial" of contaminated medication would have been very aware that
something was very wrong. Now, doctors barely even know who someone is
in their office and probably less in the OR!!! They have a chart, a
nurse to make sure they have the right person and other staff like the
anesthesiologist to keep the patients straight, and doctors do even
surgeries like "herding" cattle through a shoot for slaughter! It is one
after the other... half the time, they don't even "close". Some
assistant does the final suturing, stapling, gluing or however the final
incision is closed. Believe me, I can tell the difference after surgery
of the doctors that KNOW THEIR PATIENTS and they do the surgery from
opening to closing every step. I witnessed this idiot that did my biopsy
on my temporal artery the other day practically running out of OR,
stripping off that gown to hurry for a new one, and I heard them say
yes, the next one is ready basically! Now you tell me how the hell we
don't have even more medical mistakes from bad medications
(contaminated), to wrong medicines given, to wrong surgeries performed
(and their are more than we really know), to nurses who do NOT follow
doctors orders(and I have experienced MANY of them), to any and every
other type of "so-called accident" there could be in the realms of
medical care at any facility!!! These types of issues have gotten to be
so "mundane" compared to all of our other mess in the world that the
news medical "don't feel this kind of stuff is NEWS WORTHY ENOUGH to
even talk about anymore. This is the very reasons our entire system
needs to be changed. this business about doctors overworked with too
many patients, and too many not needed procedures, scans, X-rays, blood
tests, expense invasive things done, and the list goes on, and all due
to the name of the game..MONEY, AND GREED!!!! I was speaking of my book
just below, here is the subject of an entire book for me!!!! I have been
through enough surgeries, tests, procedures, doctors, and seen mistakes
in my own life as far as medical mistakes to FILL A BOOK! One in
particular was so bad it ALMOST COST ME MY LIFE! And I am NOT JOKING
about that one. IT alone could be a book. So, this is very near and dear
to my heart. Our system is BROKEN, it is filled with doctors who have
to do enough "procedures" "tests", surgeries and what have you to be
able to keep a business open! I just kind of "lost" my own
Rheumatologist who had his own PERSONA PRACTICE open for over 7 YEARS!!!
But, due to the ever climbing prices of the business he had to CLOSE IT
AND GO TO TEACHING, RESEARCHING, and then SOME PRACTICING, BUT ONLY
PART-TIME NOW!! And he was the BEST Rheumatologist in the DFW area, in
fact I venture to say in TEXAS! He knew his patients, he was never late,
he ALWAYS LISTENED, HE never over scheduled, when you needed prior
authorization on medications, he DID IT RIGHT THERE IMMEDIATELY HIMSELF
IN THE ROOM, I mean the man knows his stuff. I could not fathom him
unable to meet his obligations, but it is due to the horrible mess with
insurance companies, Medicare, and the entire screwed up ball of crap
our medical situation is in!!! Good doctors cannot survive!!!!! I have
been watching this since it first unfolded as I said above since my
issues of 2010 honestly almost killed me. It was supposed to be a
"routine" gallbladder removal. I can tell you it was anything but
"routine" and it went so far beyond a gallbladder removal, that when in
the end was more than likely NOT NEEDED! It just goes to show, sometimes
"things are not what they seem", doctors should TAKE MORE TIME TO SEE
THE EVIDENCE, rather than waiting for a million tests, get down to the
brass tacks of what is really going on. I realize my circumstances were
very emergent, and symptoms revealed things that appeared to be gall
bladder related. But, the surgeon that done the procedure either fouled
up, and never admitted it OR something went very wrong in the hours
following that surgery. What made it worse, is because it HAPPENED to
be "WEEKEND" so rather than try to nail down the problems or transfer
me, they waited.... AND ALMOST WAITED TOO LONG!! By the time I was
finally transferred to another hospital, it was almost too late! Even
then my life was very touch and go for days. They had called my family
in to be "together" more than once during several of the operations I
endured over the coming days. I believe I was more in the operating room
than out, them trying to first even establish what the real problem
was, then what to do to fix it. Still honestly till this day, even
reading the records, I don't think they knew what the issues really
were, other than I was extremely and critically ill. I lost over a week
or more of "time" where I had no clue what happened. My husband has
tried to fill in the blanks, because I was so severely ill, and had so
much medication in me, that I don't remember many of the surgeries that
went on. There was an entire week, that I thought that my husband never
even came to the hospital yet he had been there every day, sometimes he
drove two times daily all the way from Ennis to see me. It was a living
hell for him and my family... and for me! I, at the time was so ill, I
did not realize just how badly things were. But, each time I see
something like this, especially when it involves a situation that SOME
ONE COULD HAVE CAUGHT THIS!!! , PLUS IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED! I
watched the news and saw last night, A COUPLE BOTH HAD INJECTIONS. The
wife passed away, and now the HUSBAND is ill with meningitis!!! So that
family may lose BOTH PARENTS to this absolutely stupid certainly KNOWN
error. It proves once again GREED RULES! Due to being cheap, to make a
few bucks rather than sterile and clean to save peoples lives they went
for the cheap, contaminated, filthy route! Can you imagine being
injected directly into your SPINAL FLUID THAT SURROUNDS YOUR BRAIN WITH
MOLD AND CONTAMINATED MEDICATIONS?????? It just makes me ill to even
think about it!!!!!
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