Tuesday, May 30, 2006
A doctor sues his own hospital
This must put him in an awkward position:According to the lawsuit, Patty Phillips went to the hospital's emergency room March 19 with extreme abdominal pain. Her husband said he was certain it indicated a serious intestinal problem that required immediate surgery.
Instead, he asserted in the lawsuit, she spent hours in a bed without standard monitoring machines in a storage area outside the hospital's radiology unit before she died. An autopsy revealed she had 20 inches of damaged intestine.
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Damn litigious physicians and their frivolous malpractice suits! Why, we won't be able to keep specialists if this keeps up! This guy is a layman, he's not smart enough to appreciate all that physicians do for him!
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: 2:07 PM
: 2:07 PM
He should be completely ashamed. I'm sure everyone did everything possible for his wife. Does he think he is the only imporatnt person in that hospital that night?
You Doc's better watch out treating other physicians, see how litigious they are?
You Doc's better watch out treating other physicians, see how litigious they are?
# posted by : 9:14 PM
: 9:14 PM
I had a pretty horrific experience one night in an ED where I had been previously employed. The problems came in the interactions between neurology and ED physicians. I won't get into the particulars except that I was so angry about the entire thing, that I wrote a three page typed letter. However, I was also a student, employee, and patient at the same institution - so I thought better of sending it. Instead, I discussed what happened with my attending neurologist and he said he would speak to the director of the ED. I kind of doubt that ever happened, but I think it was far smarter for me to handle it that way than to burn every bridge by sending a three page letter to the emergency and neurology departments of the hospital that also pays my own salary. *grin*
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