Comments on: Bed sores: Result of poor care? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/bed-sores-result-of-poor-care.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Happymanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/04/bed-sores-result-of-poor-care.html#comment-73803 Happyman Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/04/bed-sores-result-of-poor-care.html#comment-73803 So was Dana Reeve to blame for Christopher Reeve's infected bedsores? Perhaps she and his army of presumably highly-paid staff were negligent in his death.<br/><br/>Every single day I see and prescribe treatment for bedsores in a nursing home, and see the selfless, diligent care cna's & nurses provide around-the-clock for peanuts. <br/><br/>When a few difficult family members accuse of not doing a good enough job, that bedsores are always avoidable, etc., it always pleases me to offer them a chance to give it a shot at home- "this isn't a prison, we'll be happy to help you arrange for home care if you aren't happy here". <br/><br/>Most unfortunately decline, but the few overconfident ones (always daughters rather than sons, for some reason) invariably wind up dead or hospitalized within weeks, whereas they were stable in the nursing home for like months-years. So was Dana Reeve to blame for Christopher Reeve’s infected bedsores? Perhaps she and his army of presumably highly-paid staff were negligent in his death.

Every single day I see and prescribe treatment for bedsores in a nursing home, and see the selfless, diligent care cna’s & nurses provide around-the-clock for peanuts.

When a few difficult family members accuse of not doing a good enough job, that bedsores are always avoidable, etc., it always pleases me to offer them a chance to give it a shot at home- “this isn’t a prison, we’ll be happy to help you arrange for home care if you aren’t happy here”.

Most unfortunately decline, but the few overconfident ones (always daughters rather than sons, for some reason) invariably wind up dead or hospitalized within weeks, whereas they were stable in the nursing home for like months-years.

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