[nickcarraway]

Video at site.

Single payer medicine, coming to a country near you soon.

[LibWhacker]

Poor child. And that's without affirmative action. What's it gonna be like in this country with single payer? Much worse. They'll probably be giving us flu shots with dirty needles for our heart attacks.

[sparklite2]

So mom didn’t notice, either? Sue her, too.

[onedoug]

This was out of the backseat, or a toddler’s car seat?

I believe car seats for young children are required in every state in this country.

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

No one is investigating a ‘fall’ of the magnitude that BREAKS a toddler’s leg?

Happened in the car? Why wasn’t she strapped in? Are the laws different across the pond?

[Raycpa]

Come on folks, lets not nitpick. the doc’s had a 50/50 chance of being the wrong. Those are tough odds.

[lee martell]

This is probably not the best time to vacation in Florida anyway, so close to the Hurricanes.
Both doctors and parents are to blame for that mistake. Doctors moreso that the parents.

[pgkdan]

“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.

This is a really, really stupid mistake but how in the world could the mother NOT notice the cast was on the wrong leg? She said she asked them to x-ray both legs but I'm absolutely certain that the little girl let her know which leg hurt.

Sorry but in my opinion this mother is hopeless.

[adorno]

At least they didn’t mistake it so bad to put a neck brace on her.

[Jeff Chandler]

Oopsy

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[Jeff Chandler]

[vetvetdoug]

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.

[cdcdawg]

After performing this sterling medical care, the doctor went outside to do #2 in the street. A plausible scenario.

[Flying Circus]

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.

[No Socialist]

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.

[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.