Jan 30
What in the holy crap is going on at this hospital???
A Sanford mother says she will never be able to hold her newborn because an Orlando hospital performed a life-altering surgery and, she claims, the hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee.
The woman filed a complaint against Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems, she said, because they won’t tell her exactly what happened. The hospital maintains the woman wants to know information that would violate other patients’ rights.
That is freaking insane!
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That is nuts.
It made me laugh n I have no idea why.
I am so glad I’m a guy right now.
TRI/fuzzy you both are morons
That’s why you should not stay in hospitals. “Super-staph” is rampant and there’s very little that can be done for it. For her to have it in all 4 limbs though is a bit odd. I think there may be more going on here than the hospital wants to admit. I hope it wasn’t a case of mixed charts.
This woman is living one of my deepest fears, a lifetime of not being able to hold your children. Yeah, she will adapt to most of life’s challenges, but there is no substitute for hugging your children.
I find it odd that she “filed a complaint”. I think i would have filed a “fiery apocalypse from the heavens to incinerate their eyeballs and internal organs”. But to each his own. Seriously though, this is really tragic.
In Romanía a doctor couldn´t make a vasectomy then cut and tritured the pacient penis. I have the link, but it´s in spanish
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/192478/0/pene/cirujano/nervios/
Landmine Has Taken My Sight
Taken My Speech
Taken My Hearing
Taken My Arms
Taken My Legs
Taken My Soul
Left Me with Life in Hell
Sick… and very sad.
Welcome to Florida.
*sigh*
Remind me never to get sick there….
Why do I find this one so hard to believe. I can imagine that flesh eating bacteria to get hold due to cross-contamination, which means that the hospital has been neglient in it’s sterilization most likely. But to get it in all four limbs is *bleep*.
The hospital, in a letter, wrote that if she wanted to find out exactly what happened, she would have to sue them.
Did they really write that ??? WTF
this is beyond malpractice…
# Joshua Says:
January 30th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
TRI/fuzzy you both are morons
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That’s not very nice. I even gave a
face.
How on Earth could this happen? This is beyond the definition of tragedy!
Devilbob: And where do you get your medical care from?
Eugenio: You don’t know the first thing about that case. Trust me there is a hell of a lot more to it.
This reminds me a mix between Alien and Resident Evil…
Seriously; I don’t know why if the patient has the right to…. does the patient even have the right to know anything what happen to him / her
When I first saw that I was shocked, and so I didn’t want to comment on this. It is terrible tragedy for her. She had really bad luck. Streptococcus isn’t normally a flesh-eating bacteria, but very rarely it can strike opportunistically and cause mortality within 24 hours.
Waking up without arms and legs is one of worst horrors I can imagine, BUT it is very likely that they saved her life.
Why they don’t tell her what happened? Basically it’s the fault of lawmakers. The patient has indeed right of information, but it collides with other patients’ rights of confidentiality. It looks to me like the hospital shows her how she can obtain this info – through lawsuit.
Anyway in my opinion there is more important question to ask. No “how it happened”, but “could this have been prevented”. I think this is where the hospital screwed up.
Ohhh I get it now… cheers Moonwalker
This is really screwed up, and depressing…
“BUT it is very likely that they saved her life.” Perhaps not. It is also likely that the hospital royally screwed up.
Um, so she was in the hospital after delivering her baby for a few days, then transfered to another hospital. She would have to have given consent at that time for the transfer. She had to have a reason for it. For such a dramatic life altering operation, someone would have to have given consent, either her or her husband. I’m pretty sure what the hospital did was highly illegal, unethical, and will become very very costly. I think it would be a pretty safe bet that a few doctors won’t be doctors anymore either.
No matter, she will soon become the richest quad-amputee in the world.
Let me preface this as it f’n sucks that something like that could happen to someone, so my joke comment isn’t laughing about the situation, i couldn’t imagine that, more so making fun of floridians.
My parents have a place in florida right outside orlando, and I’ve been down there quite a bit. I don’t know how many of you have had work done by people down in florida, but most every service down there is terrible, no one is ever on time for anything, do half ass work, i’m surprised they went and did more work, based on the customer service i’ve gotten i’d be more inclined to think they wouldn’t have even finished the birthing.
So, I recently spoke to a seminar speaker named Dr. Jim Garvey, and he gave me some statistics about hospitals. He said that the 4th leading cause for death in the US was hospital infections, and if you are intubated, you have a 50% chance of ending up with TB or pneumonia. Now, if you are being intubated, it’s not like you have the ability to ask how clean the thing is first!
Apparently hospitals and army tents have little or no way to sterilize the air other than HEPA filters, which only trap kind of larger molecules. This Dr. Garvey has created a device though, called the BioBlower, which he hopes to be funded by the army soon which will kill pretty much everything. Here is an article: http://medgadget.com/archives/2006/08/spores_check_in.html.
And as for that woman, that is possibly the scariest thing I’ve ever heard. Well, other than being awake for surgery but unable to tell the doctors that you are still awake.
Dang, this isn’t that far from me … other side of Orlando …
This is unfortunate, but there may be other issues present. I spent 5 weeks on an externship with the infectious disease team at a local hospital in St Louis, I saw a multitude of patients, with varying degrees of disease.
Resistant organisms are a huge problem today in medicine, stemming (steming?) largely from the overuse of smaller, yet effective antibiotics for treatments when it’s not warranted. For example, you call your doctor because you have a mild cold or head congestion. He may call in a prescription for amoxicillin or penicillin for you to a local pharmacy. Both of these drugs were potent killlers in their heyday but, since they have been prescribed so commonly there are bacteria that have “gotten used to” them, i.e. becoming resistant.
That’s just what is happening outside of hospitals. Think of whats happening inside hospitals using the same concepts. Doctors are often forced to use “empiric” therapy, using antibiotics that are potent against many different organisms because they are unable to quickly identify the pathogen (bacteria involved) and use an agent that is more specific for that bacteria. They do this, suprise, so they cover themselves legally. What this in effect does is force more doctors to use the “big gun” antibiotics until something definite is determined about the infection, and thus exposes more bacteria to this antibiotic and increases the chance of resistance. Now think of bacteria strong enough to put you in the hospital in the first place becoming resistant.
Resistant cold/flu may not be that big of a problem since it’s usually our bodies that fight that off anyway. But can you imagine resistant meningitis (brain infection) or osteomyelitis (bone infection)? Scary. And hospitals do (or should) try to prevent this by eliminating “sources” by thorough cleaning and handwashing, as well as donning gowns/masks/gloves, but to completely eradicate all source is statistically impossible. They can only hope to eliminate it down to a point where it will easily controlled by our bodies natural defenses.
Toxic shock/resitant staph or strep is a terrible thing. It usually starts from a source wound and rapidly spreads, looking much like a rash. Here’s the basics of how it works. The bacteria get inside your body and infectinng the tissue in your skin, excreting toxins that kill the surrounding tissue. They spread a little further and repeat. Some even produce gas pockets in your flesh. I would much personally rather be bitten by a poisonous snake than be told i have this. And the weird thing is, the medical community has not found out fully why sometimes the infection spreads like this and why it doesnt sometimes.
And don’t get me started on HIPPA (the law preventing the hospital from releasing the information). It sounds like the hospital had some person on the same floor with a similar infection, and by releasing those records is a violation of that second person’s rights, for which the hospital can be sued. The easiest thing to happen for them is to be ordered by a judge to release the information. Why they would be putting a woman that has this type of infection on the ob floor is a mystery to me.
Kinda long-winded but I hope this helps.
I’m really sorry everyone, but this is neither funny, sad, crazy, nor even stupid. It’s simply horrible.
It’s horrible.
But it seems you guys only like seeing the “go figure” aspect of this, instead of noticing that this was an actual HUMAN BEING, who got dismembered of ALL her extremities, and will never be able to walk again, or embrace her children and loved ones ever again. This is something way beyond criminal, and my prayers go out to her and her family.
And I’m really sorry too, Scott, for what I’m about to say now: I love the entirety of Extra Life, and that’s why I have visited the site almost daily for many years now; and I confess it sometimes demands a hard stomach regarding some of the blog posts. But this is, without a doubt, the most cruel and insensitive post you have ever made. Posts of this nature are not at all why I look forward to the otherwise excellent site.
Please smarten up, Scott. I know you’re better than this.
Correction to the story: http://www.wesh.com/news/9148849/detail.html
Basically she knew what was going to happen, she just wants to know HOW she got the strep.
Thats so sad never being able to hold your children thats gotta break your heart in so many ways.