My grandmother died from several direct, very bad decisions by nurses and at least one doctor. She was in the hospital for a pretty harmless issue and agreed to let someone else take her surgery spot in the schedule. From that point on, they basically killed her, and she told them where the problem was they’d caused, but they just gave her morphine, and added to that, as their induced problem killed off her colon and other lower organs. My mother called all of us to drive over, and they had her under and she was near death.
It was traumatic, and they not only ignored the problem they created, they kept ignoring the complications they’d created. A common problem that medical staff can create, just went ignored.
Do not trust medical staff to do the right thing. Your life, or a loved one’s life, is in the balance. Get second opinions. Check in constantly, if it’s a friend or relative. Don’t accept extra pain killer for an apparently completely different problem they didn’t have before showing up. Why do they need that pain killer, when that’s not the reason for being in the hospital?
A study I put up earlier said 25% of all patients have something detrimental happen to them from someone on staff at that hospital.
Assume it’s 100%, if that helps you be more alert and attentive to the patient’s care. Doctors and nursing staff are human and as competent as you are on complicated things, when tired. So, how many of you do calculus problems when you are tired?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
“Don’t accept extra pain killer for an apparently completely different problem they didn’t have before showing up.”
This goes for any change in medication while you or a love one is in the hospital. Often that is what causes new symptoms that then get aggressively treated causing the doctors to order even more meds. Often destroying the body’s own ability to fight off infection and heal itself.
I had a MRSA infection in 2012 and the hospital seemed to be doing it’s level best to kill me off.
By the grace of God, they didn’t.