Re: Medical Errors

RetRN · ‎10-01-2013

I was an RN working in hospitals for 40 yrs. in ICU and oncology. I will tell you this--medical errors are grossly UNDER reported. I have not only seen sponges left in patients, but even forceps. I recommend anyone who needs to be hospitalized have someone stay with them whenever possible.

asoutherngirl · ‎03-07-2016

I would like to thank all of you who responded to my daughter's actions the day I "died" in the ER. I have read your comments to her and she is so very pleased to think that people unknown to her would think so well of her. She had only recently learned CPR from the local police station where she took a volunteer's course and finished first in her class.

The thing that gives life its greatest significance is the capacity to care

RetRN · ‎10-01-2013

Your daughter is a wonderful human being. Kudos to her.

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

Good thing your daughter was there & able to get you some help.

They gave my dad a shot of penicillin which he' allergic to. Right after they gave him the shot the medic knew what was wrong & ran out of the room yelling for some help. They worked on my dad even pronounced him dead. Dad said he was floating up above his body watching everything. The doctors working on him said if you are still with us you need to do something to let us know. Dad said he could not move. One of his eyes finally had movement that they saw. Guess if he was gone most of us kids would not be here either.

Reba055 · ‎06-23-2014

@Nightowlz wrote:
Good thing your daughter was there & able to get you some help.
They gave my dad a shot of penicillin which he' allergic to. Right after they gave him the shot the medic knew what was wrong & ran out of the room yelling for some help. They worked on my dad even pronounced him dead. Dad said he was floating up above his body watching everything. The doctors working on him said if you are still with us you need to do something to let us know. Dad said he could not move. One of his eyes finally had movement that they saw. Guess if he was gone most of us kids would not be here either.

@Nightowlz That's so weird. I know someone who had the exact experience. I wonder if there is something about penicillin that causes the "floating above looking down" reaction.

MaggieMack · ‎10-01-2014

@Reba055, I don't know that an experience like that is penicillin-related. When I was 20, I had heat stroke while riding my bike, and as I was falling to the asphalt, I was out of my body watching it all happen. Surreal. Awoke in the hospital with a shaved head and many stitches, got there by an ambulance ride I wasn't conscious for. I think the experience is more related to being inches or seconds away from death.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@RetRN wrote:

I recommend anyone who needs to be hospitalized have someone stay with them whenever possible.

have someone stay with me? no thanks

hnj

hckynut(john)

goldensrbest · ‎03-10-2010

My son shane ,died because of a medical mistake, when having his below knee left leg amputated, a specialist was to be in the operating room, and a screen was to be put in his lower body,in case a blood clot would happen, he suffered a embolism,that went to his brain.

When you lose some one you L~O~V~E, that Memory of them, becomes a TREASURE.

YorkieonmyPillow · ‎01-13-2013

@goldensrbest wrote:
My son shane ,died because of a medical mistake, when having his below knee left leg amputated, a specialist was to be in the operating room, and a screen was to be put in his lower body,in case a blood clot would happen, he suffered a embolism,that went to his brain.

OMG, how terrible! What a horrific thing to happen to your son and yourself. I'm so sorry!

PenneyT · ‎02-27-2015

@goldensrbest wrote:
My son shane ,died because of a medical mistake, when having his below knee left leg amputated, a specialist was to be in the operating room, and a screen was to be put in his lower body,in case a blood clot would happen, he suffered a embolism,that went to his brain.

I'm so sorry.