Posted on 09/20/2017 12:21:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Single-Payer???
When you have tens of thousands of incidents like this, you’re bound to have one go wrong once in a while.
There’s no real excuse for it, but humans do make mistakes.
The staff should be taken to task for it, and policies/procedures tightened up so this hopefully doesn’t happen again.
It's the child that broke the wrong leg.
Single payer is fully socialized medicine.
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?
It obvious why it happened. They all drive on the wrong side of the road. So it’s more a cultural thing.
Is that the latest acronym for all the different varieties of “gender” confused queers?
This occurred on a Saturday, but it really is a Monday kind of mishap.
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
This is what records are for. Once I had to splint a dog’s leg that was broken. Unknown to me, the dog was turned over by the technician while I was away and was to splint the topside leg. Splinted the dog’s leg and then was writing on the record and noticed that the broken leg was opposite of the splint. Oops. Took the splint off and put it on the correct leg. Things happen and it doesn’t hurt to mark thinks and do the paperwork in triplicate because mistakes can happen.
Thus my point, though which admittedly, could have been made more clearly.
After performing this sterling medical care, the doctor went outside to do #2 in the street. A plausible scenario.
Messed up story at so many points, not just the obvious hospital mistake.
First, how does a child fall inside a car hard enough to break a leg? My boys at that age had to be made to stop jumping off things taller than most cars but they didn’t break any legs.
Second, how does the mother not know which leg is broken and make sure it is right? My wife and I would be all over those x-rays to know what was going on.
Third a child that age should heal a broken bone much faster than 5 and a half weeks well enough to go on a trip. Two of my boys have had broken arms and both were out of casts and released to normal activity in less time.
Three points that all point to the mother being not too bright and maybe not to honest either.
I don't know. Sometimes, it's just about the angle or something. Or maybe Lawrence Taylor was involved.
I would think the mother would notice, but a lot of people never question doctors as authority figures. They just assume everything a doctor does is right.
One of my patients was a twenty year old man who broke his femur, which is a hard bone to break, falling one step. Some freak twist in the fall. It can happen but I hope the doctors and nurses in this case were on the lookout for abuse. Even if they did cast the wrong leg.
“I believe car seats for young children are required in every state in this country.”
Our laws don’t apply in Wales.
Single Payer and terrible mother at work.
As a mother, I would have been there and known it was the wrong leg before my child suffered all day.
Judgemental? Yes I am.
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