A few questions about a wrongful death suit?
Friday, June 6th, 2008 at
8:11 pm
Ribbons asked:
My father had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2005 and been taking warfarin ever since. However, he had not been to see his PCP for months and had not had his pro times checked since last June. He was scheduled to be seen in July, but his doctor was out with pneumonia and the receptionist didn’t make another appointment for him until October. My father had a stroke from a blood clot in September. It happened around 3:00 in the afternoon, and he spent a good 16 hours in a cubicle in the ER, and had a second stroke, before a doctor came in to see him the next morning. They had done an MRI at some point, and the doctor said that blood clots were to blame and that they would start clot buster therapy on him, but they never did. He was admitted, however, and the cardiologist who saw him wanted him to get a pacemaker. So for several days he was taken off the warfarin. He was receiving nothing to treat clots. 8 days after his stroke, he was given the pacemaker and sent home the next day with a few prescriptions, one of which was for betapace, a drug that is supposed to be started in the hospital so the patient can be monitored for 3 days because it is a dangerous drug. A few days later, my father was rushed back to the hospital with excruciating abdominal pain. As it turned out he had a blood clot that had killed his small intestine and was shutting down his organs. He was given a short time to live, and my family and I had to stand by and watch him die an agonizing death over the next 24 hours. My mother and I contacted an attorney in October and we only just heard back from him today. He said that he had two experts working on the case. He said that according to medical records, my father had received no treatment for clots and that they didn’t realize how sick he really was. No one told my father or his family how sick he was either. The attorney said that the experts have to prove that had he received treatment, his chances of survival would have been improved by at least 25%. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It sounded to me as if the hospital knew he was a lost cause and got what money they could from the insurance and just sent him home to die.
Also when my father was dying, a nurse in the SICU came to my mother and me and told us they were going to pull his heartline and that he would only have a
few minutes after that. We were so out of our minds with grief and we had no idea what she was talking about. order prescription drugs Apparently, they took it upon themselves to disconnect
his pacemaker to hasten his death. I looked under the bandage over his incision site after he’d passed and there was a clear tube coming out of his chest. I saw no incision site. I’m wondering now if when he got the pacemaker if they even put it in all the way. I just don’t know and besides, if they did pull that out how could they do it without the family’s permission? Wouldn’t that be a form of euthanasia? I’m so upset and confused over all of this, and hearing that news from the attorney today has brought it all back again. Can anyone give any insight? I thank you in advance.
My father had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2005 and been taking warfarin ever since. However, he had not been to see his PCP for months and had not had his pro times checked since last June. He was scheduled to be seen in July, but his doctor was out with pneumonia and the receptionist didn’t make another appointment for him until October. My father had a stroke from a blood clot in September. It happened around 3:00 in the afternoon, and he spent a good 16 hours in a cubicle in the ER, and had a second stroke, before a doctor came in to see him the next morning. They had done an MRI at some point, and the doctor said that blood clots were to blame and that they would start clot buster therapy on him, but they never did. He was admitted, however, and the cardiologist who saw him wanted him to get a pacemaker. So for several days he was taken off the warfarin. He was receiving nothing to treat clots. 8 days after his stroke, he was given the pacemaker and sent home the next day with a few prescriptions, one of which was for betapace, a drug that is supposed to be started in the hospital so the patient can be monitored for 3 days because it is a dangerous drug. A few days later, my father was rushed back to the hospital with excruciating abdominal pain. As it turned out he had a blood clot that had killed his small intestine and was shutting down his organs. He was given a short time to live, and my family and I had to stand by and watch him die an agonizing death over the next 24 hours. My mother and I contacted an attorney in October and we only just heard back from him today. He said that he had two experts working on the case. He said that according to medical records, my father had received no treatment for clots and that they didn’t realize how sick he really was. No one told my father or his family how sick he was either. The attorney said that the experts have to prove that had he received treatment, his chances of survival would have been improved by at least 25%. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It sounded to me as if the hospital knew he was a lost cause and got what money they could from the insurance and just sent him home to die.
Also when my father was dying, a nurse in the SICU came to my mother and me and told us they were going to pull his heartline and that he would only have a
few minutes after that. We were so out of our minds with grief and we had no idea what she was talking about. order prescription drugs Apparently, they took it upon themselves to disconnect
his pacemaker to hasten his death. I looked under the bandage over his incision site after he’d passed and there was a clear tube coming out of his chest. I saw no incision site. I’m wondering now if when he got the pacemaker if they even put it in all the way. I just don’t know and besides, if they did pull that out how could they do it without the family’s permission? Wouldn’t that be a form of euthanasia? I’m so upset and confused over all of this, and hearing that news from the attorney today has brought it all back again. Can anyone give any insight? I thank you in advance.
