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Hee hee…She’s already kickin’ ass and takin’ names! 😆
Hope your tests come back today, and that everything is perfectly alright…Stupid hospital. 😡i just called my primary care and got my results , i have .. nothing thanks god the blood work came back clean .. still dont know why it took 10 days to get a letter from some place 30 miles away. My appointment paper work only took 2 , i really will have trust issues with them for now on
That’s great! It’s too bad they handled it the way they did, however. I don’t think they could have made it more stressful for you if they had tried. 🙁
YAY!!! You can stay around and post funny little tidbits for us to read for a long time!!! 😀 😆 Congrats on the good news! 8)
Wonderful news! Now let’s hope there is a lawsuit and you get some money out of the deal LoL….I mean, not that you would have to go through the lawsuit….but you would get the benifits from it….aww nevermind >.< Glad you're ok!
That’s awesome! What a burden taken off of your shoulders! Maybe there is another hospital you could try out in future situations?
Not to forgive the hospital one bit for the stupid way they handled this, but I wonder if lawyers or legal concerns had something to do with it. “Oh, crud, we exposed a bunch of patients to disease X a few weeks ago. We’re a big-name institution, we can’t afford the scandal. What do we do? What do we do?” Other guy: “Let’s talk to Legal first.” A week goes by while Legal kicks the problem around. Then Legal says, “You have to write a letter to everyone exposed notifying them that there was An Exposure. Don’t tell them to what in the letter. Maybe the bug didn’t take. Make them all get tested first. Then we’ll know how many legally dangerous cases there will be to deal with.” The letter spends another week being carefully drafted and tweaked, then goes to Legal for their approval. More time elapses. Finally the letter gets sent. Patients promptly suffer acute terror. 👿
I’d be furious with the hospital too. I’m glad that none of the big guns came up positive, and I hope that the pseudomonas doesn’t take either. But when things get crazy-busy–and they do–sometimes bad stuff happens. If it’s at a school, the quality of the teaching suffers. If it’s at a nuclear plant, leaks may happen. And if it’s at a hospital, spread of disease is always a risk. It’s not excusing what happened. It’s just that terrible things do happen when people are tired and stressed and some critical thing slips someone’s mind. It’s like juggling water balloons filled with napalm: a little slip has terrible consequences. Hospitals scare the crud out of me for just that reason.
And if a hospital is being “run like a business”, with “keeping an eye on the bottom line” and “trimming the fat”, that’s just not excusable in my mind. The patient’s safety and well-being has got to come first, always. I’m sure that that’s what your doctor wants, and I’m sure that he was FURIOUS when this little surprise came to light. Doctors care a lot about their patients (well, proper doctors do). Corporate mindsets don’t, and when they “trim the fat” they put more workload on the remaining staff, making them more tired and stressed and increasing the chances of incidents like this one. I wonder if countries with socialized medicine have this problem?
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