Posted on 02/17/2014 3:11:38 PM PST by Lucky9teen
Heartbreaking and angering... The State is legally killing his daughter and there is not much he can do about it, welcome to the authoritatian state...
And Rod Serling...
However, it seems that every hospital has roaming doctors that look at patients' bedside records and prescribe something so that they can get a bit of the insurance money.
Some idiot doctor saw that my father was in pain and told the nurses to give him morphine. He went temporarily insane and was put in the hospital's psych ward.
It took us several days to convince everyone that it was the morphine and that my father was not crazy.
Fortunately the entire episode took less than a week and within the walls of a single hospital, but it was still disconcerting.
This is scary...and can happen to anyone.
Wonderful, true life story and great link, KC!
Exact same thing happened to me but with Fentanyl.
Do not EVER let anybody put this in your drip.
Bookmark ;)
Fetanyl is very common.
We have an elderly uncle who goes “insane” when he gets a UTI. Several visiting docs have made mistakes with his *diagnosis*...that’s why we try to keep our notes/binder and a family member present at all times. Once the antibiotics are started, he gets back to his old happy self, rather quick.
So is salmonella.
Don’t take your child to that hospital
For three days we fought with the physicians while my father, who was a brilliant articulate man, sat in his bed and drooled, and messed himself if you didn't get him to the bathroom. Imagine having an in depth conversation with a man regarding social science and politics and then feeding him and wiping him the next day.
Neurologists insisted that he had had a stroke. My poor mother fought tooth and nail for them to take him off the morphine and they treated her terribly up to the moment they physically shoved her.
At that point I unleashed the hounds as it were and went straight to the top using the words liability and litigation in every sentence. They took him off the morphine and within three hours, he was back to himself.
This is what we learned. Do not leave a loved one unattended in a hospital and question, question, question everything. There are wonderful health care providers out there; but there are also arrogant ignorant jacka**es.
So, because YOU reacted badly to a particular drug, no one should ever have it?
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I hope the majority of his legal bills are going towards setting up a 10 - figure lawsuit.
they once put arsenic in my drip.
“Exact same thing happened to me but with Fentanyl.
Do not EVER let anybody put this in your drip.”
Fentanyl is a very powerful synthetic analog of opiates. It is very effective at controlling pain and has few adverse side effects when used properly. It is a good drug used properly but is a drug of great potential abuse outside of a medical setting.
However, any drug can have adverse side effects. In your case it was Fentanyl. See my tag line of occupations>
I found that out! I was called and told to get to the hospital to say “good-bye”. Thank God, there was no DNR. That doctor was never allowed in that room again. 15 years later, we are still going strong. You have to be the advocate for you and your family. And, do whatever it takes.
why can’t Tufts get this worked out
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