This is what the Democrats want to bring to America..hey isn’t Socialized medicine awesome..go in with 4 limbs, come out with none
In Canada, she wont get more than a few thousand dollars. There are no multimillion dollar lawsuits allowed.
What a nightmare. She’s definitely lucky to be alive.
Such medical negligence is not restricted to hospitals that operate under socialized medicine. Such horrible outcomes are still rare but with the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria the risk is greater than in the past.
She doesn’t have a leg to stand on but, she qualifies for any job at IHOP
At least many of the hospitals and medical personnel are dirty now. Much has changed.
It would be impossible to care for a baby without arms or hands. Our daughter has two little ones and they keep her running.
Unfortunately, incompetence is not limited to socialized medicine, although it might be more frequent in that system, along with simply not giving a damn. There is a reason that doctors’ mistakes kill around 100,000 people in the USA per year.
Single payer, “Send ‘em home with a pill”.
This is not funny. This is a fast and lethal condition. I should know. I spent 4 months in the hospital and rehab over the summer with this. I was Heaven blessed to not lose a limb or my life. I will carry a massive scar and a pronounced limp for the remainder of my days. I am still fighting back daily from the fatigue that remains. I have no funny quips to add, only prayers sent for this poor woman.
The Japanese, Koreans and Chinese have long known about a bacterial probiotic that acts as a prophylaxis against Clostridium difficile and maybe many other drug resistant bacterial diseases.
The antibiotics Clindamycin (for example, Cleocin), Fluoroquinolones (for example ciprofloxacin (Cipro), Penicillins, and Cephalosporins, can often leave a person vulnerable to drug resistant bacteria, because they wipe out so much of your healthy bacterial flora.
But in the 1960s, the Japanese discovered Clostridium butyricum, a non-harmful bacteria that blocks difficile and likely several other such bacteria in your intestines. It is made in Japan and sold as “Miyarisan”. It is standard practice in their hospitals to give patients a regimen of it prior to surgery, if possible.
It is sold on Amazon, but is cheaper on Ebay. And it does take about 3 weeks to ship.
Definitely good to have a bottle of it in your medicine chest. Because C. diff will make you sick for a month, and has been described as “cholera’s younger brother.”
According to the CDC, about 300,000 Americans got C. diff a couple of years ago. “Approximately 29,000 patients died within 30 days of the initial diagnosis of C. difficile. Of those, about 15,000 deaths were estimated to be directly attributable to C. difficile infections.”