[VOA]

Ahh the joys of socialists health care

Socialized medicine really, really sucks.
But MRSA is problem even here in the USA.

I very nearly lost a leg when a doc F---ed up and gave me a steroid for
what was obviously a bacterial infection (cellulitis) of one of my legs.

I managed to get back to the hospital 24 hours later with a 103 degree fever,
a leg that had turned black/blue...and was just lucid enough to
see the same doctor's eyes turn into saucers when he saw my leg (and realized
his screw up).
It was cured in a week with probably about $10 of Keflex (antibiotic).
I still shudder to think of what could have happened...
amputation or death by sepsis.

[vrwc0915]

I will never ever leave a loved one in the care at a hospital without watching over them and making sure that they are getting the right meds ect.

[Sarajevo]

I very nearly lost a leg when a doc F---ed up and gave me a steroid for what was obviously a bacterial infection (cellulitis) of one of my legs.

HE DID WHAT? My starz! I'm only a Paramedic, and I can diagnose and treat cellulitis. I hope you beat the fecal matter out of that (supposed)Doctor, and then litigated for everything he owned. I don't know what kind of "Doctor" would prescribe a steroid for a bacterial infection, especially for an infection that was treated by a first generation cephalosporin. D*mn, this pi$$es me off!