Woman Becomes Quadruple Amputee After Giving Birth {Not a Joke}

wftv.com ^ | January 20, 2006

[kaylar]

But the article certainly isn't the best written piece of American journalism ...Is it my imagination, or do reporters (and editors, and proofreaders) get worse every year?

[TASMANIANRED]

Here in KY insurance will pay for max of 2 days on vaginal delivery, and 2-3 days on C-Sections.

I talked to postpartum nurse to ask and she said she did not believe it was by law, just by insurance policy here .

[Jenny Hatch]

I know it wasn't a staph infection, I was just making the point that certain forms of staph are only located in hospitals.

Jenny

[TASMANIANRED]

There are no forms of staph located only in hospitals.

MRSA may have started in hospitals or nursing homes but it is in the community now.

Gay clubs are one of the primary sources of community acquired infection.

[Texas Eagle]

The hospital maintains the woman wants to know information that would violate other patients' rights.

Obviously Rush Limbaugh is not one of those "other" patients.

[VOA]

"Clostridium Dificile is the one you can't live without but there
are strains of it that are deadly."

You're probably already on top of this...but for others in the forum who
haven't heard about the outbreaks of C. diff:

http://www.newstarget.com/016053.html

[jamaly]

I'm sure they're just trying to get as much money as possible out of the hospital, although it may or may not be the hospital's fault .

It isn't easy to successfully sue a hospital because of an infection. Proving where you got the infection is difficult and finding a doctor or hospital employee to testify against the hospital is not an easy task. Usually the "expert witnesses" have to be doctors from other states because they don't want to testify against someone they will be passing in the halls or on the golf course.

I recommend that anyone who has surgery get their medical records from the hospital and doctor's office. It can be expensive if you had a long stay and complications or cheap if the stay was short. But, if there were complications you might never know it until you read it in your chart. By law they have to provide you with your records; but, they do charge for them. The fee is approximately $1 per page for the first five or ten pages then 25 to 50 cents for each additional page. Yes, it can be expensive; but, the information can be PRICELESS.

[jamaly]

She would likely have been in severe shock and completely incapable of knowing anything. But,,,,what about the husband?

Maybe her husband was unable to speak English well, uneducated or just plain overwhelmed by the whole situation. Even if both he and his wife were geniuses, these things can move very fast and decisions have to be made fast. Sometimes life really is as messy and frightening as an episode of ER or Grey's Anatomy.

[jamaly]

So you lost all your blood and then half again as much? Yeah, right.

Some of you FReepers can be shockingly ignorant and heartless. For your information people can and do lose all of their blood and survive. Haven't you ever heard of blood transfusions? What a friggin idiot you are. My mother nearly bled to death in the 1950s. She was a rare blood type and they had to call the TV and radio stations and ask people with her blood type to please come to our hospital immediately to donate blood for her. Guess what. She lived 40 more years and kept a list of her blood donors the rest of her life. She was very grateful.

[jamaly]

Your answer would make some sense if her husband was comatose during that 12 day period, too.

See my post #228.

[Born Conservative]

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