[Beowulf9]

You know, this isn’t the first time I’ve read about some hospital in Florida chopping off the wrong extremity.

[Red in Blue PA]

R.I. hospital fined for 3rd wrong-side brain surgery this year

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1127mistakensurgeries27-on.html

[cajungirl]

Did you read the story?

It was not a wrong limb chop off. The title is misleading. Apparently she had a delay in surgery for a kidney stone, a few hours, and got sepsis and gangrene in extremities. The amputations were reasonable,,

[Dianna]

You know, this isn’t the first time I’ve read about some hospital in Florida chopping off the wrong extremity.

Except that isn't what happened here. She had a kidney stone which led to infection and septic shock. Blood flow to her extremeties was naturally lessened (to preserve blood flow to more vital organs-a protective measure by the body) and her arms and legs basically started to rot and needed to be amputated.

[Hootowl]

I lost a brother in a case like this. He was crushed against a wall by a forklift and taken to the hospital at about 3 a.m. There was no doctor on duty, so they telephoned the on-call physician who “diagnosed” Jim over the phone and decided that there was no reason for further treatment. The ruptured artery in Jim’s chest continued to bleed and in two hours he was dead.