A Toddler With a Broken Leg Was 'Sent Home With a Cast on the Wrong Leg'

Wales Online ^ | 20 SEP 2017 | OLIVER RODERICK

[TigersEye]

“We went to the fracture clinic at the hospital again then on the Monday, and a nurse there said I should have noticed their mistake. "They were making out as if it was my fault for not checking which leg it had been put on at the time.

There is a point there. It doesn't excuse the medical staff but how does a parent ignore that mistake? People need to be in charge of their own medical care as much as possible.

[Yulee]

Wales. In the United Kingdom. England, Scotland, Wales.

In Florida doctors are required to mark the correct leg, hand, arm etc., and have the patient or parent sign the mark. People have had the wrong limb amputated.

[Salvation]

So do you want socialized medicine?

Sickening mistake.

[Chickensoup]

And I believe that this occurred in Wales ...

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isn’t that the 51rst state?

[Chickensoup]

Right? How can a toddler (she looks big for a 2 year old) actually fall in the backseat far and hard enough to break her leg?

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Those kinds of breaks are usually more of a fall with a twist.

[T-Bone Texan]

Thanks for the photo of mom. She’s trash!

As an aside, my baby’s leg popped out of the socket. she had to wear a “SPICA” cast covering both legs and pelvis, for 3 months. It sucked. She was just learning to crawl at the time. She was like a turtle: could not flip over. It was frustrating for her, especially towards the end.

She is now out of the cast and appears normal.