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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (508779)8/29/2009 10:42:23 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1576696
 
I know of at least 3 or 4 of my own in a hospital, wrong meds delivered twice, and an air bubble in an IV tube that kept approaching my arm. I couldn't get anyone to respond to my call button so I pinched it off until someone responded.

You do realize that air bubbles in IV lines, unless large ones, are harmless? Chances are you were over-reacting to a non-event.

My brother died 2 years ago from colon cancer after his second tumor was not recognized until 2 years after the first even though a PET scan alerted them to the second a year earlier....the report was ignored or not read. My brother had the same primary for at least 30 years who never sent him for a colonoscopy or sigmo his entire life. He was anemic for at least 4 years and all he did was give him pills for anemia...he continued to be anemic after the first tumor was removed indicating he was still losing blood.

This all sounds like your interpretation of events that may or may not be meaningful. It may well be, for example, that your brother's physician recommended a screening colonoscopy and your brother refused it. Happens every day and you would have no way of knowing this. As to the anemia, if he was anemic before and after, perhaps the physician disagrees with your interpretation. If he was being treated with any chemo, it is a pretty safe bet the oncologist was on top of the situation with the anemia.

I don't know anything about this stuff, and you don't either. Sometimes, people are sick and they can't be healed.

If mistakes were made, sue someone. That is your prerogative. But to impute some kind of massive claim that medical errors are killing 100,000s annually is a bit much.
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