Posted on 09/20/2017 12:21:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The two-year-old spent the day in agony
A toddler who went to hospital with a broken leg was given a cast on the wrong leg, her mum has claimed.
Samantha Green’s daughter Tammy, who is two-and-a-half years old, was injured after a fall inside the family car.
Her mum took her to A&E at Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli, where she was given an X ray on her right leg.
Ms Green claims medics then put the plaster on the left leg.
“Tammy fell off the back seat of the car, so I took her to the hospital on Saturday,” Miss Green, of Llanelli, said.
“She had an X-ray on her right leg, but when she had the plaster applied, it was to the left leg.
“She was still complaining for the rest of the day on Saturday, and she hardly slept.
"We took her back to the hospital on the Sunday, where a nurse had a look at the computer and apologised.
“She said sorry for the mistake of the plaster going on the wrong leg, and reaffirmed to us that it should have been the right leg rather than the left.
“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. I told them that it wasn’t my duty to be aware of that and point out their mistake.
"For all I knew, she could have had breaks in both legs. I requested them to carry out X-rays on both legs, because it was a hard fall.
"Considering the way she landed, we wanted to be sure. She was in a lot of pain.”
The family fear they will have to cancel a planned holiday to Florida next month as a result of Tammy’s injury, due to the length of recovery time.
“She can’t walk on it, and won’t crawl or perform any kind of movements like that,” Miss Green continued.
“We were planning to go to Florida on our holidays in five-and-a-half weeks.
"We think that we’re going to have to cancel that now, because she’s set to have the plaster for six weeks before we go back to get them to take it off.”
Joe Teape, director of operations for Hywel Dda University Health Board, said: “While we are unable to comment on individual patient cases, we would encourage anyone who has a concern regarding the treatment or service they receive to contact our Patient Support Team”.
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.
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.
So do you want socialized medicine?
Sickening mistake.
And I believe that this occurred in Wales ...
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isn’t that the 51rst state?
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.
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.
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