Posted on 08/25/2010 11:04:36 AM PDT by Domandred
When our daughter was young she spent a good deal or her life on roller blades playing street hockey with the neighborhood kids.
At the age of six we had to take her to a doctor for a bad ear infection. She had some small bruises on her shins from the hockey and while there the nurses spent the entire visit trying to get her to tell them my wife and I were beating her, especially me since I was a male.
She refused to tell them lies and said she plays hockey. One of the nurses threatened me and told me the bruises were documented and that she was going to keep an eye on me. I actually got mad and told her to "Kiss my a$$."
Never went back to that doctor.
In a better world, this is where the wife pulls out her carry pistol.
LOL!
I thought he was taken to Prince George's Hospital after the accident and chose to go to St. Mary's Hospital later.
Defendant Scott replied, ‘Hell no, he don’t come up in here and be telling us what the fuck to do!’”
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That tells me all I need to know
Defendant Scott replied, ‘Hell no, he don’t come up in here and be telling us what the fuck to do!’”
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TY for the ping. The sentence above tells me all I need to know. I hope Wheeler owns that hospital when all is said and done.
We had our basic training in that much earlier. When that same daughter was a baby she had hemangiomas on her arms that looked just like the bruises that would be caused by grabbing her by the arms as if to shake her. We had a letter from her dermatologist explaining what they were and giving the dermatologists phone number to be called at any time if there were questions. Mrs Mag and I each kept a copy of our "get out of jail free card" with us at all times.
A kind of humorous sequel to that story occurred when Mrs Mag and I were out shopping some years later. We saw a couple with a baby who had very similar hemangiomas to our daughters'. Once you get to know the difference between hemangiomas and bruises they are quite distinct, even if most ER personnel are never trained in them. They are very rarely life threatening. The guy saw me notice their daughter and I could see him stiffen up in preparation for the wave of hate he thought I was going to let loose on the "child abusers" so I said loud enough for him to hear "Look, hemagiomas!" They didn't look too prosperous but I could have hit the guy up for a $20.00 charactor loan on the spot.
We have health care press gangs? We have to go to our hospitals armed?
Thanks LucyT. Seems a tad overzealous on the part of the “security” staff.
Hell, Wheeler can sue them twice.
"Rule five: Operating on the wrong patient or doing the wrong side of the body makes for a very bad day...otherwise it's a res ipsa...short for res ipsa loquitur, or 'the thing which speaks for itself'. It means a malpractice case in which the error is so obvious that even a non-expert can see that a f*ckup has occurred. A patient falls off the OR table. You cut off the left leg when it's the right one that's gangrenous....A patient bursts into flames during defibrillation....Res ipsa is checkbook time. Just write in a string of zeroes."
Throw the hospital out of business.
And put the guards AND the admin into forced labor -- say in French Guyana.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
The victim told me that her husband had slapped her. I told her I would be filling out a restraining order. I asked her where he worked and I said that I would serve the restraining order and arrest him. She did NOT want me to arrest him at work. She was a professional in her job, as was her husband. I told her I would leave an arrest order for the following shift.
To this day I don't know if he was arrested, or even if the case ever went to court. I never got a subpoena.
And as for going to court on domestic violence cases, I never went to trial on a case of DV. I had testified in a preliminary hearing, and once I testified about a case I wrote and a man was sent to jail on a probation violation. But I think that my experiences are shared by a lot of officers, and that few officers ever actually testify in a trial of DV.
They blame a man. Probably a 'Teabagger.' ;-)
Cheers!
True story...I went to the ER around 10PM suffering from severe prolonged vomiting. I was put in a room at around 11:30 PM. No one checked on me, no one answered the call button, I was emptying my own emesis basin until I was so weak and dehydrated I could not get up to do it. I was vomiting everywhere, finally just yellow, green bile. The one time I tried to leave the room to seek help a passing nurse yelled “get back in there”. Finally at 6:30 AM a man who said he was a “doctor” came in to see me. While trying not to touch me he jabbed one finger at my upper abdomen and asked “did that hurt?”. Without waiting for a reply he left the room and I never saw him again. At 8:30 a nurse came in asked had if I had ever taken phenergan and was anyone with me to drive me home? I said yes, my s-i-l was in the waiting room and would drive me home. She said “good, take this, go straight home and don’t stop anywhere because you are going to sleep”. The nurse put me in a wheelchair and wheeled me out to the waiting room to tell my s-i-l to go get the car, then “helped” me into the car. I got home at 9:45 AM SAT. MORNING went straight to bed and woke up at 7:35 PM SUNDAY NIGHT. My daughter said she was scared and did not know what to do. She said she kept coming in to check on me and would touch my arm or chest to see if I was still breathing and that she spoke to me but all I did was moan. When I woke up I was literally green. My daughter was crying and almost hysterical. She had not known what to do.
I called the hospital but they seemed unconcerned about my complaint, they did bill my BC-BS though.
BTW I was the only patient in that ER, on a Sat night that should have told me something, huh? The “doctor” was not accompanied by a nurse when he came in the room to see me. My s-i-l was told only patients were allowed back in the exam rooms.
When telling this story locally I name the hospital and say I think they must have been filming a commercial gone bad for Holiday Inn Express.
Prince George's Hospital, soon to be known as Joseph Wheeler Medical Center owned by the Wheeler Family Health Corporation.
Funny how that escaped some people.
If you had read the story you would know his wife was with him.
My guess is that he didn’t have a choice. If he was in a car accident the closest available EMT unit is going to respond; you don’t get to pick where you want to go when you’re picked up at an accident scene with severe trauma.
43 posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:32:32 PM by snowrip
Funny how that escaped some people.
77 posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:13:29 PM by raybbr
Not as funny as those that got the facts messed up. He was taken to Prince George's Hospital first and later went to St. Mary's of his choosing. You'd know that if you had read the article. From the article:
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (CN) - A man who was hurt in a car crash but was misidentified as a cancer patient claims security guards at Prince George's Hospital beat him up when he tried to leave the hospital to avoid chest surgery he didn't need - "to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest." He adds that one guard repeatedly called him "bitch" as he roughed him up.Wheeler says he and his wife chose to leave the hospital, but when he tried to leave with the incorrect ID bracelet, one of the security guards "charged Wheeler, again calling Wheeler 'bitch,' and shoved him against the wall."
"Mr. Wheeler spent the next three days at St. Mary's Hospital and was diagnosed with four broken ribs, a sprained shoulder, a ruptured spleen, and a concussion," he says.
bump to read at work
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