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To: Gauguin who wrote (53668)	7/22/2000 3:54:12 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

>>I think we could run medical facilities better than we do.<< Amen to that. It's scary, reading one of these big charts, where the people wind up dying. Not one health care provider can possibly keep up with everything that's in there. The case I'm working on generated about 500 pages before the kid died. Who read all that? Who had time to read all that? And if even one person did, how did that person communicate what he/she knew to the rest of them? And all that stuff about doctor's handwriting isn't funny anymore when you can't read their notes. It's common to see multiple mistakes in one of these cases. I call them cluster-fucks. I usually turn them down, because the people were going to die anyway, or were very old, because I don't have the resources for a case where the recovery isn't likely to be high. I turned down one where an eighty year old lady didn't have her stroke diagnosed for several days because no one called a neuro consult. I turned that one down because her son signed her out against medical advice, and took her to a different hospital, and she died on the way. I turned down a case where an old man fell down, twice, one time he broke his arm, the other time he broke his hip. I turned that one down because the medical records said he didn't call the nurse's station before he tried to go to the bathroom. I turned down a case where a 70-year-old man poppped a bleeder after lung surgery, and it wasn't diagnosed for hours. I turned it down because the surgery was for lung cancer. A lawyer with more money and a big staff can afford to take chances on cases like that. I can't afford to lose. I think medical malpractice is a lot more common than people realize. Letting your O2 sat go to 58 sounds criminal to me.