Posted on 10/16/2009 9:16:28 AM PDT by Chet 99
Edited on 10/16/2009 9:17:20 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
An Everett nursing home is facing a lawsuit after an elderly resident's genitals disintegrated while staff allegedly failed to act.
Charles Bradley, then 93, arrived at Everett Care & Rehabilitation in the winter of 2004, suffering from the usual maladies of old age, according to court documents. He continued to live at the nursing home until two weeks before his death, which came on March 31, 2008, when he was rushed to the emergency room with a life-threatening -- but previously undetected -- malady.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
Son, if you don’t stop doing that thing your Ma told me about, do you KNOW what’s going to happen...?”
I’m right there with you, these just comes a time when you have to take the long walk for the benefit of the tribe.
Three problems - 1) proving negligence (which doesn’t seem to be a problem in this case); 2) establishing cause/effect; and 3) assessing damages.
1) Slam dunk - negligence on its face.
2) The news story cannot establish, nor can plaintiff without serious effort, state that the negligence, not the cancer, caused the pt’s issues.
3) Damages - just how much do you think a 93 y/o pt, with cancer, in a nursing home is going to be able to claim in damages?
Where was the family during all of this? Why didn’t the pt complain to them or his MD directly?
That poor man. I feel very sorry for him.
I’ve never heard of this affliction before-We should give it a name-How about “Anderson Cooper’s Disease”?
These things can happen to frail, demented, elderly pts, even with the BEST of care.
I believe it.
IMHO, any disabled elderly who enter an average standard of care nursing home in the USA run the risk of being of one of two destinations after a given period of time:
either sent to a hospital with a far worse and different ailment than they entered the nursing home with, or sent to the funeral home.
GENITAL DISINTEGRATION.....PING!!!!
Penile cancer isn’t bad, it’s all in how the owner . . .
No, can’t apply that to this story.
Well now I've seen everything. There is actually genital disintegration ping list?
I just have a list and I change the ping name to suit the thread...
<P.martin_fierro has a “mangled genitals” ping list though...
Nursing homes suck so bad. We had a familt friend in one dying painfully from cancer. He was on liquid oxycontin for the pain and the nurse was stealing it for herself and not giving it to him and he was to frail to speak or communicate so he was dying in agony while this woman got her jollies. Family only found out when they saw the nurse take his dose and pocket the bottle. Cops raided her house and found like 100 empty bottles of the liquid oxy plus pain killers from all her other patients. People are sick.
Someone has a mutilated genitals pinglist, I think this might fall under that category myself.
Damn, I hate it when that happens!!
This just..
It’s just so bad on so many levels.
The author could have written it better.
But it brings to mind all kinds of horrors for the male mind.
I'll bet he does.
I kind of wondered about that. They say he was able to speak etc, so I wondered why he (apparently) didn’t mention it to anyone himself. Then again, the story seems to be missing information. As usual.
Poor guy.
And I will do my best to make sure no one I love has to end up in a care facility. And I certainly hope I don’t.
Actually, The Demolished Man.
Disintegrated genitals, Bones?
It’s worse than that; he’s dead, Jim.
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