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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (489797)	6/22/2009 11:50:12 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575062

You want us to start posting for-profit medical horror stories? How about these two, from my experience: 1. A buddy of mine was in a car accident, broke an arm, a leg and his pelvis. He was in the hospital for six weeks in a body cast. I visited him once a week. Just as his casts came off, a little nurse came to help him crutch his way down to physical therapy - his muscles had atrophied. She led him out onto a just-mopped floor outside his room, he fell and re-broke his pelvis! He sued for enough money to buy a cabin in New Hampshire. 2. My mom was in the hospital for heart surgery. A diabetic, she was given 10X the amount of insulin she should have been by a nurse. Fortunately, her doctor walked in while this was happening, caught the mistake, and pumped her full of glucose to counteract it, otherwise, she'd have died. I tried to get her to do it, but she wouldn't sue.