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To: Carolyn who wrote (9502)	5/3/2016 12:18:39 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74648

Carolyn - a technician took the Xray and scanned it and sent it to Australia for it to be read and diagnosed. There was no malpractice lawsuit available to us here. My wife suffered a dislocated hip. She had a hip replacement years before and was warned not to do any heavy lifting. The dislocation was caused by her lifting a heavy rock that was in the way of her doing her gardening. To be specific, she was doing some planting here. An Xray was needed to confirm the dislocation. The actual procedure done to put the hip back in place was a fairly straight forward procedure and a success. The hip doctors in the emergency room did a good job. The Xrays were read properly from Australia. When I questioned why the Xrays were sent to Australia to be read, I was told that was the "procedure". Since the physicians all did their job properly, any lawsuit here would have to be directed toward the hospital for causing undue suffering time wise by outsourcing the Xrays to Australia. No lawyer wanted to touch this because it ultimately meant challenging the validity of outsourcing in this instance and outsourcing is legal. The hospital did not do anything illegal by outsourcing the Xrays to Australia for it to be read. It is cheaper to have an overseas physician read the Xrays than have one in the US do so. Lots of hospitals have gone under from not watching their expenses. And I'm not defending what the hospital did, far from it. All I'm saying is that this was not a simple, clear cut malpractice lawsuit. A lawsuit here would have cost a lot of money and may have gone to the Supreme Court. My wife did not want to sue. It is very difficult and costly to beat government policy. She was happy that her hip was relocated back in its proper place and she could get on with her life as usual.