Posted on 06/06/2014 5:42:39 AM PDT by TigerClaws
HOUSTON -- The family of an 80-year-old Navy veteran believes Houston’s VA hospital put their loved one’s life in serious danger. Shedrick Morris was transported to the Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center on Wednesday night. Morris was taken there from his home by ambulance after he began experiencing chest pain. According to relatives, Morris was discharged by the hospital only hours later between 2-3 a.m.
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I would have expected family to still be there?
Unfortunately, no surprise. I watched a friend who was in severe distress, turned away from a VA Outpatient Clinic with them saying that we just needed some rest. He has a history of heart ailments. I told staff to call 911 if they weren’t going to treat him. The medics said, as I suspected, “congestive heart failure”. He died a few months later. RIP, Denny. Memory Eternal.
1. Did the family know the vet had been taken to the hospital before or after they released him?
2. Did hospital actually admit him? If they did not, then it's not really the hospitals fault that he left.
3. Given the way this article is written. It sounds like people trying to get paid or they are just all to lazy to go to the hospital to help him.
I am blaming the writer of this article for not being clear. Can't anyone write anything that is not a damned sound bite anymore.
BTW I am feeling extremely cranky today. Probably because the first face I saw was the poser standing on the hallowed ground of Normandy. I think I shall remain cranky all day!
There is a case to be made that the VA is not responsible for this family’s failure to make a plan for their dad. Overnight accomodations, sitter services, companion services and transportation arrangements, after a doctor’s release and dismissal, are never a part of the healthcare experience. Maybe voluntary in some case, by a volunteer, but not to be expected.
This is a danger for anyone who has no ready dependents to oversee care.
I know, but it leaves out essential facts!
Zactly. How these reports make a buck is all that matters.
The man was going out the emergency room the same way he came in. How would anyone down there even know who he was from anyone else?
I am in a really crabby eat poo and die mood. I pity the fool who bugs me today!
The article is poorly written. This man’s family may not live in Houston, and if nobody from the hospital ( including the patient) told them how would they know he was there.
Perhaps the family lives out of state. Families today are very mobile and sometimes convincing a person of that age to move away from their home and live near their children is damn near impossible… Ask me how I know this.
I know. D Day with Barackus on hallowed ground is heartbreaking. Shilling and pandering to hide his revulsion of all things military is his mission. What a putz.
ANYONE who goes into ANY hospital should NEVER be left alone. ..ever...
The VA: Unabashedly previewing obamacare
I am surmising the kids called the hospital to check on dad, since the story said that. This assumes that they knew he went there, somehow.
This could have been a tragedy for sure, and maybe dad should no longer be living alone, but again this kind of planning was the responsibility left to him and his family, not the hospital.
No hospital I know provides sitting services, companion services, transportation and planning services through the Emergency Room, following a doctor’s release.
I think this goes nowhere, in the court.
My mood matches yours, sad to say.
I look forward to some great zingers from you today!
It will at least make me laugh :)
You would be amazed at how often we have to deal with the “Pop Drop”by families in the ER.
“ We aren’t going to come get him in the middle of the night, you have to keep him”. Meanwhile a room and nurses are tied up that we could be using for other patients.
Stunning difference in authenticity, wouldn’t you say.
Living in your character, virtue and accomplishment is a glaring contrast to living life on choom, and handing foreign policy accounting over to a “dude” like Tommy Vietor.
I agree that this goes nowhere in court. Perhaps neither the hospital or the family is to blame and the real issue is the number of elderly living alone geographically separated from family.
My father lived alone in MA until age 86 with me his only daughter and living relative in South Dakota. He flat out refused for at least two years two move out here near to us despite many middle of the night hospital runs ( he was and is mentally competent.) and it wasn’t until he fell at home and landed in the hospital for two weeks that we were able to convince him to come. Kidnapping children and elders is still illegal in the U.S.A.
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