Posted on 12/22/2009 8:20:56 AM PST by DogBarkTree
A city hospital nearly destroyed a New Jersey woman's life and wrecked her marriage after misdiagnosing her with terminal HIV, hepatitis and herpes, according to a bombshell lawsuit.
Maria Osorio, 54, of Passaic, said she saw an ad on TV offering a $15 mammogram at Harlem Hospital over Valentine's Day last February and decided to take advantage of the screening.
When a nurse offered her a free instant cheek swab and blood test, too, she accepted. That's when she was told she had HIV.
"It was horrible. I wanted to throw myself on the subway tracks," she said.
The shocked Osorio immediately turned on her husband of 37 years, Gabriel Lezcano, 60, who works as a janitor in New Jersey.
"I started screaming violently at him. I pushed him. I pulled his hair. 'Who were you with?' I asked him. He kept denying that he was with anyone, but I kept raising my voice and pushing him. 'You must have been with someone. You must have had too many beers and maybe now you just don't remember,' " she recalled.
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I dunno about all your fancy ‘science’...According to my sources, AIDS was created by the government to kill black people...
To put this in perspective, will national healthcare make this kind of thing better or worse?
Yes Really!
Most Health-Care today is little more than an endless sequence of tests which have no action level predetermined what so ever.
As for keeping people alive I would question that to the point of keeping people strung out on drugs with no kind of clue what so ever to curing the root cause of the problem.
Like I said........It’s a Business and all they want is Dollars. Just like this Health Bill being rammed down the publics throat. The Benefits (of which will be very few) don’t kick in until 4 years later.
The taxes kick in as soon as OBOZO signs the paper!
My husband and I were in a head-on collision in Ireland.
God was good, and we were spared major injuries, and we survived the major impact of airbags. But we experienced National Free Healthcare firsthand.
We were not checked out at the crash site. (Our Renault met with a truck ferrying a car.)
We walked to the ambulance and were not provided any restaints or support..no seatbelts, necks, ribs, great unkowns...
We were never x-rayed or subjected to the usual routine required at a US emergency room. We did not see a doctor, but were “seen” (note: not examined) by young persons, qualifications unknown. The whole process took less than an hour.
There was the possibility of spinal injury, cardiac tampenade, broken ribs, collapsed lung, etc. that could have led to a major episode sometime after leaving the emergency room. Fortunately, both of us have a medical background and were pretty sure we were OK, aside from being very sore, etc.
I’m not sure a NHS second opinion would have been fruitful.
And then, ignorance is bliss! No exams, no tests, no x-rays, no news is good news!
We know from living in Germany, and our contact with socialized medicine that our experience is more typical than not.
That sounds like the time for the confimatory Western Blot test to come back negative at the far end of the usual time span. The nurse was negligent.
There should be extensive jail time for all that were responsible for this. - Incompetence is a good reason to terminate an employee, but it isn’t an adequate excuse to avoid the consequences.
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