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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 07:54 PM Original message |
NYC Mom Sues Hospital After Losing Both Hands, Feet in Medical 'Mistake' |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. What... the... FUCK!! |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I don't know that have ever even had a nightmare THAT messed up |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. My identical reaction |
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Heddi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Kind of hard to give permission when you're in a "semi-coma" |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. By the time the surgeons got there, the fuck-up was over and done with |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. That's why we must all have living wills |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. That's the first thing I thought! |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. I hope she gets every penny. nt |
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madaboutharry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. This wasn't a "medical mistake." This really looks |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. Thgis is why people should be more educated about food |
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libnnc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I was 19 when I was treated for kidney stones |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. apparently being sedentary helps make them. my couch potato |
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libnnc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Well, I was NOT sedentary. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:37 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. some links |
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libnnc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:49 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. mine were genetic |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:12 PM Response to Reply #29 |
38. some apparently are. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 01:23 PM Response to Reply #20 |
37. I was relating my nephew's experience. I don't know you or your |
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Sheepshank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 11:36 PM Response to Reply #8 |
34. you should avoid tainted powdered milk products (melamine) |
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Kceres (839 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Sometimes the condition is hereditary. |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
6. Link with photo... |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
28. "I know this is the place that is going to get me back on my feet," she said later. |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 10:33 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. But it had one thing the other didn't: a photo. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. Misdiagnoses? What "infection" was this? |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. NY Daily News *has pic* with a slightly different take on it |
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Heddi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:24 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. well, then, |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. The articles say she's suing the hospital not the surgeons. n/t |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I agree |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:21 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. If it was NY it may have been the NYFD. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-23-08 02:01 AM Response to Reply #11 |
36. Here is info on "sepsis". |
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Ecumenist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
14. WHAT THE HELL??!! WAS SHE BLACK? |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:07 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. No she isn't |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Are you sure? |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 11:17 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. No |
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Ecumenist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 11:48 PM Response to Reply #22 |
35. Um Excuse me Underpants but yes she is. She's just light skinned. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
17. Another frivolous malpractice suit |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
26. Can't be -- we have the BEST medical care in the world!!! |
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dorktv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
30. Now that is going to be a nasty fight. |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-22-08 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
31. Give her prosthetic gun fittings and let her practise on the people who messed up |
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