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To: geode00 who wrote (204452)	9/27/2006 1:16:15 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You can find horror stories from ANY hospital. Here's a couple from people close to me: My mom was recuperating from heart surgery, when an incompetent nurse gave her 10 times the amount of insulin for her diabetes as called for on her chart. She probably would have died of insulin shock, but her doctor came in during, and corrected the potentially fatal blunder. Despite my urging, my mom chose not to sue. A high school friend was recuperating from multiple fractures suffered in an auto accident, including one leg, his pelvis and several ribs. He was in a body cast and bedridden for six weeks. A tiny female nurse came to get him to escort him on crutches down to physical therapy, leading him out onto the freshly mopped floor just outside his room. He slipped and fell, fracturing his pelvis AGAIN. He was in the hospital another two months. He wouldn't tell me the amount of his settlement, but did say he was well satisfied and felt they made up for the mistake! These were both from well regarded American hospitals.