Baby Loses Hand and Both Fee due to STUPID ER NURSE

An entire life destroyed before it can even start... that's just wrong.

I hope their lawsuit goes in their favor.

 

I read the article. I don't see where the nursing staff is to blame for this situation.

Perhaps the parents should have sought medical treatment sooner or should have left this hospital to go to another.

Nurse's actions are strictly limited by the Doctor's orders.

Blaming the nurse for this is like blaming the truckdriver for delivering a load late when he was held up at the shipper. It's not like the driver could have loaded the truck himself. The nurse could not do anything that the doctor didn't order.

 

with out knowing the whole storey,its hard to put blame on anybody--i am sure the parents dont even know the whole storey --i sure feel for them--to have that happen would be so heart wrenching--i dont even want to think about it

but that is the way with hospitals everywhere--every country --at the hospital where my wife works--there was a 12 hour wait to get in----not the hospitals fault really--its only so big--only so many employees--and they did run out of beds---and people had to be put on stretchers in hall way--when a trauma code red happens it takes precedence over the people coming in with a hang nail and such
now this poor baby should have not had to wait at all though--usually a baby with a fever gets in right away
but the way health care is (big business) its only going to get worse

 

Methodist is not a "preferred" hospital for even emergency ambulance situation. Medic Units in south Sacramento will choose the Kaiser (less than 1/4 mile to the north) with auto crash and trauma (low range trauma). Medic/Fire rescue when faced with severe trauma and acute illness will take the patient 4 miles farther North to UC Davis Medical Center, and pediatric or cardiac another mile past UC Davis is Sutter.

Even though Kaiser is a "member hospital"...the Kaiser South understands the limitations that Methodist has and fully cooperates with the medic choice to bypass Methodist ER and take patients to Kaiser for stabilization and referral to some other facility...usually UC Davis. Methodist does not even promote a pediatric unit (due to the facilities that Sutter and UC Davis offer so close to their facility. Methodist is a decent orthopedic facility, but not a true major emergency facility.

The neighborhood "Catholic Healthcare West" is a clinic...designed for "walk-in" patients. Evidently (assumption) the family did not have a regular Doctor...the question will be how long did the family try to deal with a fever on their own without seeking medical services? What was the "fever" (temperature) the child was presenting? What was the extent of the "skin discoloration" and what sort of "discoloration"?

There are many other questions not addressed in this article and that the media will not have access to until this goes to court....however Stanford Med Center will be all over this for publicity....the biggest question to my mind is what is being done to find where the child encountered "Strep A", a highly contagious situation?! And why was the child flown to Stanford (88 miles nautical) and not taken by ground unit to UC Davis 4 miles to the North of the Methodist facility? And why with Kaiser 3-4 blocks (and an ER facility) did the family sit and wait "5 hours" at this hospital, without going up the road to Kaiser...or even UC Davis when they weren't getting the attention to the ailment from Methodist?

 

a very sad situation

 

You do have a point.