I had a broken arm misdiagnosis as a bone bruise for two months, even after x-rays.
I went out of my insurance doctors and paid $150 to see a orthopedic which saw the fracture clearly on the xray. He took additional xrays, in different angles, and the fracture was even more pronounced. I went back to my original doctor and orthopedic with the new xrays and his report... Needless to say, I had them by the left nut and the right nut. Good thing, no permanent damage. Dropped the HMO and went to a PPO. Never looked back since. -----Original Message----- From: Maureen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:28 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Hospitals are the suck When my doctor was trying to diagnose my problem, one of the pathologists made the statement "when we see hoof prints, we look for horses, not zebras". To which my doc replied "if you see zebra poop all over the yard, and there is a zoo next door, you might wanna look for a zebra." Meaning, of course, that the problem wasn't a common illness, and looking at common causes wasn't helping. We've had four people die in our immediate family from medical incompetence and mis-diagnosis. Frankly, I think doctors or nurses who cause death of the patient due should be charged with murder. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree. Something along the lines of "if I don't know about it it must not > exist." Don't get me started; I run support groups for DVT patients and I > have seen waaaaaaaaaay too many horror stories. It's also much worse in > public hospitals with a captive audience, as far as I can tell. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293499 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
