Feel so badly for this man. What Kaiser and the State of California conspired to do to him is shameful.
It took me exactly one visit to figure out that they made their money by NOT treating people. Or worse. Needless to say, I bailed at the first opportunity.
Naturally, I can't say what went wrong here, but my experience way back then taught me all I needed to know about the quality of socialized medicine in the USA.
Sadly, it is all going to be like this if ObaMaoCare remains.
Between a rock and a hard place here. Modern practice is a lot more parsimonious with antibiotics than a few decades ago when it would have been done just out of principle. Which is an opportunity for a problem like this to arise. The doctors play the odds according to the game they are told to play.
If less than 6 percent of the cases referred by the medical board aren’t pursued by the AGs office, the ones rejected must be pretty weak.
Immoderate behavior over decades caught up with him
Aristotelian moderation is always a good guide
He has the right kind of name, Mario Guzman, but his problem is that he must be an American citizen. Now if he was an illegal, Kaiser would be paying him millions.
I belong to Kaiser SoCal..this is the way it is with Kaiser, if you have something simple they can help you, if you have something more complicated, or you are old forget about it you are basically on your own.
One has to wonder how many illegals were in front of him in the ER.....
I had to go with a friend to the ER recently, many many illegals there, clogging up the works...
Took us 8 hours to get ANY help....
I should have just sewed up her leg, but some liberal lawyer would have probably thrown me in jail for performing medicine without a license....
Sorry for this guys pain. Unfortunately medicine isn’t perfect. He was treated appropriately. Just because he had the one in a million oddity does not make it criminal nor civilly liable. Docs and nurses can only respond to symptoms. He had an ankle injury. He felt like he had the flu. He was treated for that
Maybe if he had gone back the next day instead of when he was in sepsis for several days he would have had a better outcome
Hospitals are the most dangerous place on earth.