Anonymous wrote:Surprising. Usually they are restrictive with pain meds.

I'm not naturally one to resort to suing but yeah I would in this case.

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Johns Hopkins University says “Avoidable Medical Errors” are the third leading cause of death (greater than 250,000 per year) after heart disease and cancer.

“The CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics FAILS to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate.”


Yikes!!!!!

Anonymous wrote:Well that means he stopped breathing

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a doctor, and is mortally afraid of medical errors. He says they are extremely common and rarely reported. There is almost always a cover up.

I am a nurse and yes, this is true. And honestly, there is a lot more cover up when the mistake is done by the physician. Us nurses are a dime a dozen in the hospitals' eyes... but physicians, not so much. Nurses joke about which physicians we would avoid bc we see the mishaps (that most often get dealt with efficiently and effectively so no harm comes to the patient). Also-I cannot emphasize this enough-but nurse to patient ratios are a big deal. When nurses have too many patients, things fall through the cracks. I wish hospitals would advertise their ratios to patients.

Good idea for consumers to demand hospital stats about nurse/patient ratios. I remember when women needed to choose an obstetrician. You would first ask their percentage of cesarean surgeries. Details matter. Your life can depend on it.

Hospital mistakes are the third leading cause of death.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a doctor, and is mortally afraid of medical errors. He says they are extremely common and rarely reported. There is almost always a cover up.

I am a nurse and yes, this is true. And honestly, there is a lot more cover up when the mistake is done by the physician. Us nurses are a dime a dozen in the hospitals' eyes... but physicians, not so much. Nurses joke about which physicians we would avoid bc we see the mishaps (that most often get dealt with efficiently and effectively so no harm comes to the patient). Also-I cannot emphasize this enough-but nurse to patient ratios are a big deal. When nurses have too many patients, things fall through the cracks. I wish hospitals would advertise their ratios to patients.

Good idea for consumers to demand hospital stats about nurse/patient ratios. I remember when women needed to choose an obstetrician. You would first ask their percentage of cesarean surgeries. Details matter. Your life can depend on it.

Hospital mistakes are the third leading cause of death.

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Anonymous wrote:Surprising. Usually they are restrictive with pain meds.

I'm not naturally one to resort to suing but yeah I would in this case.

Agree 100%.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a doctor, and is mortally afraid of medical errors. He says they are extremely common and rarely reported. There is almost always a cover up.

I am a nurse and yes, this is true. And honestly, there is a lot more cover up when the mistake is done by the physician. Us nurses are a dime a dozen in the hospitals' eyes... but physicians, not so much. Nurses joke about which physicians we would avoid bc we see the mishaps (that most often get dealt with efficiently and effectively so no harm comes to the patient). Also-I cannot emphasize this enough-but nurse to patient ratios are a big deal. When nurses have too many patients, things fall through the cracks. I wish hospitals would advertise their ratios to patients.

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Johns Hopkins University says “Avoidable Medical Errors” are the third leading cause of death (greater than 250,000 per year) after heart disease and cancer.

“The CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics FAILS to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate.”


Yikes!!!!!

Take that with a huge grain of salt.
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(16)30705-7/fulltext

Agree.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/medical-error-not-third-leading-cause-death

In general, medical treatment carries risk. You can have cancer and require surgery which carries known risks including bloodclot, infection, etc., but not having surgery would also mean certain death. If you get in a MVA and require intubation, you can end up with ventilator acquired pneumonia. If you require a central line, you can end up with a central line associated bloodstream infection which could make you septic. If you require a pace maker, you could end up with endocarditis that kills you, but not having the pace maker might kill you faster. If you require a urinary catheter because you can't pee and have a retention issue, you can end up with a UTI that makes you septic, but not having the catheter would also have a detrimental outcomes. If you are already frail and seriously ill, you require major medical care and each intervention carries risk.

Anonymous wrote:Surprising. Usually they are restrictive with pain meds.

I'm not naturally one to resort to suing but yeah I would in this case.

Anonymous wrote:My husband is a doctor, and is mortally afraid of medical errors. He says they are extremely common and rarely reported. There is almost always a cover up.

Anonymous wrote:Naloxone is used to reverse intended or unintended effects of opioids, not just overdoses, such as during sedation. It’s not a big deal.

Anonymous wrote:The great news about Narcan is that it has ZERO side effects. You could give someone you *think* OD'd Narcan and even if they didn't have any drugs at all in their system, they'd be fine. I'm glad your dad is OK.

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Anonymous wrote:Naloxone is used to reverse intended or unintended effects of opioids, not just overdoses, such as during sedation. It’s not a big deal.

Agree. It doesn’t mean the hospital was negligent. Sometimes older people are especially sensitive to the effects of opioids. This is why they take vital signs frequently in the hospital and probably saw that his respirations became too depressed. This can happen even if the nurses didn’t make an error and gave the prescribed dose (which was within acceptable parameters).

We don’t know what happened. All I am saying of giving narcan doesn’t necessarily mean anyone made an error

We can see here how drugging people is a crap shoot. They guess what might be the right drug, and then the right amount. How is this constant guessing game considered science?