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Subscribe to RSSA hospital did not do enough to care for the brother of James Woods when he went to the emergency room complaining of a sore throat and vomiting in 2006, a lawyer for the actor told jurors.
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The defense attorneys are morons.
why? he was fat with high blood pressure, health conditions he himself could have dealt with and sorry but why would any doctor think heart attack if your symptoms are sore throat and vomitting
another example of how people in our country abuse their bodies, then expect health care providers to read their minds and fix their abused bodies. If anything turns out poorly, blame the doctor. Why not blame the patient?!?!
Why don't we quit blaming people and try education and a little bit of tolerance. Maybe you should leave medicine if you do not want to help patients. Especially if mind reading is the only tool in your arsenal.
do we know what other patients the dr's were trying to deal with? for someone showing symtpoms of vomitting and a sore throat that outs him pretty far down the list in an emergency room setting if dr's are dealing with chest pain, broken legs, car accidents, gun shots etc
I suffered--and that is the correct word--from heart disease for 5 years while [non]providers in the biggest health care system in the area [not Mayo] insisted there was nothing physically wrong with me. Essentially, I was written off as a crazy, menopausal woman. I moved to be near family when I died. Instead, I was in one of the best places in the U.S. to begin the healing process. But first, I had a major MI and open-heart surgery. When I arrived, by ambulance, in the ER I was not throwing enzymes despite the severity of my condition. However, I was blessed to be in a hospital that was staffed by healers which is a whole separate world from mere doctors. I was seen immediately and treated as if things could head south any moment. As a result, everyone was prepared to ramp it up when they did.
I am now an EMT myself. One of the things that is drilled into our heads is vigilance and preparedness. High-flow O2 is SOP for pretty much everything and if anything has even the faintest whiff of cardiac 4 baby aspirin. Kent Hospital needs to be shut down if their staff do not know that vomiting is a classic sign of heart attack.
f you woods. you are what is so wrong with this country. you've got deep pockets so you are going to show these doctors right? good for you. where were you when your sorry ass brother needed you. too busy? rot in hell.
Defense attorneys are truely superior when it comes to making after-the-fact medical decisions. While the doctors could see the man was overweight, could they just glance at him and see the high blood pressure, the artery severely clogged with plaque and clot, and the myocardial ischemia? And who gave those attorneys the God-like gift of knowing that because of these unseen conditions, he alone, among many survivors, could not be saved.
The doctors ordered an EKG, so they must have had some belief that he might have a problem with his heart. Even if it was only SOP, had they taken the abnormal results as a sign that their intuition, or possibly even their training, was right and taken immediate proactive precautions, perhaps they couldn't have saved him, but at least they could have tried. Ignoring such things leads to lawsuits.
Is this one of the problems with health care in the USA? Order precautionary tests, then ignore the results? What a waste of money!
How many times have we seen or heard about people dying waiting in an emergencyroom waiting for care. Rule of thumb, do not go to an emergency room. If you are in distress, call 911. If you are brought in by ambulance, most likely they will take care of you right away. My experience was with my 86 year old Father. He fell and banged his head. There was a gash, though it wasnt bleeding much so we took him to emergency. It took 5 hours for them to even look at and evaluate him. We finally went to the head nurse, and asked how long an 86 year old man with a head injury had to wait for a doctor to look at him. So we threatened them with the fact that if they didn't take him right away, and he died, the law suit would put them out of business. Now we shouldn't have had to resort to those tacticks. However, if you are not proactive, no one is going to stand up for you. So if it were to happen again, it's 911. It's the only way.
and what makes you think your dad is so much more important than anyone else taken to the emergency room?? everyone is seen according to priority of injury, if you have someone having a heart attack, a child hit by a car, a man shot why should your father be bumped to the head of the queue??
Why are heart attacks and heart/artery conditions so hard to diagnose and why don't the standard tests, i.e. enzyme etc... always work? Why are we in the dark ages when it comes to cardiac diagnosis? If anyone has an educated response I would love to hear it.