Beware of the blanket consent form. I have lost function of right hand and because consent form I am in the dumpster of society, unable to work in my old job and disabled with no recourse. Beware of HMO style Doctors, if you have to wait 1 hour to be seen 5 minutes, change Doctors this is a bad sign.
As a professional in health care the number one bit of advice I can give anyone is assign a heath care proxy legally.The hospital should suppy you with the neccessary paper work upon entering the hospital.Let your wishes be known to this proxy.Be specific as to what you want done or not done to you in the event you can not answer for yourself.I have seen many patients without this end up chronically trached and peg tube fed until their demise.Some doctors will try to convince your health care proxy that a trach and peg are good things,chances are they are not.Understand that it is the quaility of a persons life that counts not the quanity.I see people whose lives are prolonged and they are suffering each and every day.All of which could be avoided with a strong advocate,a heath care proxy.
I too, got infected with MRSA after my hip replacement surgery in january of 06. I ended up getting the replacement removed in February, and an antibiotic spacer installed. In March, I received yet another spacer because the infection wasn\’t gone. In May, I received another hip replacement. My surgeon thought the infection was gone because an aspiration of my hip showed no infection. In August, I had to have the hip taken out once again because the infection was still present, and another spacer was installed. This time, I had a different surgeon and was at a different hospital. In October, another spacer was installed, and in December 06, another hip was installed. So far, it seems as though this one is staying. However, I have since lost my job (I was \”disability separated\”-a nice way of firing you when you\’re sick on Feb 28,2007), my place to live, and still can\’t walk on my own, therefore, can\’t get another job or go back to my old one. Now, without health insurance, I can\’t go to physical therapy either now!! I ended up getting on social security disability and applying for medicaid. I only get 800 per month, and now the social worker tells me I have to pay 265 dollars per month for medicaid coverage because I make too much off of social security!! I can\’t believe all this has happened to me just because of MRSA!! The surgeon I have had since August is wonderful, and the surgeon I had before then was wonderful, but the hospital where I contracted the MRSA from was horrible to me when I first went back to them a week after the first surgery complaining of increased pain and lots of drainage. They sent me back home and didn\’t even culture the drainage!! I can\’t help but wonder if maybe they had cultured the drainage, the MRSA could have been stopped earlier!! My whole life has been turned upside down by this. To make matters worse, before MRSA,unemployment, and no health insurance, I myself was a nurse!! That\’s the very job I can no longer perform!!! Now I can\’t even get around on my own, and have to barely scrape by on income per month that is 200 dollars less than I made in one week!!! I am STILL on antibiotics, and have no way yet of getting the prescriptions refilled until I get APPROVED for the medicaid!! This is disgusting!!! It all makes me very angry, and I can\’t do a darn thing about it, because I can\’t walk on my own yet, get another job and get back on my feet. I feel so darn helpless and strapped, it\’s unreal.
ibelieve spring valley hospital in las vegas is one of the worst,my husband die from negelance and they stript him from his dicnity before he take his last breath.i am walking arount lost for months,and is unbearable to thing about.it ever get any easiar?
MRSA is epidemic in hospitals. The reason you don\’t know about it before you go in to a facility is because there is no national accountability, required reporting, no watchdog unaffiliated or unbiased agency monitoring errors, infections or negligence in hospitals. We think there should be or that there already is a system in place, but the truth is the healthcare industry is very careful to avoid having to account for or report errors. When an extreme example presents, as in Walter Reed\’s outpatient facility, people were complaining for years about the problems there but no one was listening until the Washington Post \’broke\’ the story. Now there is a huge outcry for reform. Still people believe this is an isolated case of neglect. Not so! My husband contracted two infections in a hospital, MRSA and Pseudomonas. Both were preventable. The hospital and the physicians concealed the infections from us. In fact the victim or patient is so often blamed for \”being too sick\” in these cases, or too old or immune compromised. The fact is that MRSA is an in-hospital acquired infection spread from bed to bed by unclean, unsanitized methods. The head of an ICU unit told me that such infections and their spread were \”the nature of the beast.\” Her implication was that there was little that could be done about it. She condemned my husband to die after he had walked into the hospital for treatment two months prior after a prior discharge with active infections. He died two months later as she predicted from the after-effects and complications of MRSA, Pseudomonas and an absolute uncompromising negligence. I sympathize with you all over the MRSA effects on your lives but your stories are far from rare. It happens all the time to those who simply elect surgery, not just to the super ill. These epidemics of hospital acquired infections are hospitals\’ \’dirty\’ secrets. Physicians realize the problems but fail to report or demand reform either. To everyone in the industry, \”It\’s not my problem\” seems to be their take on the matter. Until the public demands more, we will continue to suffer this gross form of negligence. What you can do? Tell your story to everyone and anyone who will listen: Newspapers, advocates, health departments, state legislators, governors, Senators and Congressmen and women. Only when there is an outcry like that at Walter Reed will the industry begin to clean up their act. Demand reform! The industry wants tort reform to prevent you from financial remedy for negligence. Don\’t let them get by with it! I tell my story to every forum that I can find because it is all I can do in my husband\’s memory is to help prevent someone else from dying as he did.
Hi Ms. Milopoulos. My father died this past year due to the same thing, it was a living nightmare what he went through. He had no major illness, just was not feeling well & was a senior too. They killed him step by step, I tried to save him but it almost seemed beyond my control what was happening to him. He was my best friend & partner in this life. We had plans to do things in the future. His life was taken from him & me, & they act like it is \”o.k.\” becuase he was older.
I just wanted to say you unfortunately are not alone in this horrible scene going on every day in hospitals. The legal recourse is very small so they can continue to do it every single day with no consequence.
They too took away my father\’s dignity, or tried to. It was a nightmare.
I am not over it, I wonder if I ever will be. We just need to find a way to \”cope\” & perhaps do something to change this horrible situation.
To Julia: You are so right. They try to claim I got MRSA because I am diabetic. However, my diabetes is controlled. They can\’t say I am too old because I was only 39 in 2006. My first surgeon referred me to my present surgeon because he stated \”there wasn\’t anything else he could do for me, and my health problems were now past his scope of experience.\” I don\’t fault him, because he tried, and referred me to one of the top 5 osteosurgeons in the country, but I do fault the hospital for their horrible treatment of me when I went back to them a week later with obvious problems and severe pain and they sent me back home telling me there wasn\’t anything wrong. They treated me horribly that night. I had always been very conscientious about washing my hands, and \”clean\” and \”dirty\” aspects of my field, but I have seen those that have not been as conscientious. I myself had had to remind other nurses I have been working with before about washing their hands, disposing of contaminated dressings and such in the proper manner, etc., so I know problems exist. I guess I was just naive enough to believe in the healthcare professionals that were taking care of me. I am however, grateful that I am at least alive. Even though my loved one wasn\’t lost to me through a healthcare situation, I still feel the loss everyday. My prayers are with you.
my father died 10 years ago because a hospital was not smart enough to do their work well.he had a head trauma which resulted in a need of a catscan of his brain.So they did the test and then let him sit there for 3 hours before they decided there was no one there that could even read the results. so unfortuantely when they decided to move him to another hosptial it was already to late his brain had swelled so bad he was clinically declared brain dead. the doctor at the other hospital said if we got him there a few hours earlier he could have saved his life. so there you have it my father is dead now and they got away with it. there needs to be a way of recourse against stupidity in a hospital.
On October 12, 2001 I went into the Mayo Clinic, (St. Luke\’s Hospital) Jacksonville, Florida for open-heart surgery. I was told I would be in there for six days. Due to a careless mistake the Mayo punctured my stomach in two places. I was their involuntary guest for almost five weeks. While in the Mayo one of my lungs collapsed, I contracted MRSA, peritonitis, pneumonia and my gall bladder stopped working. When I went home it was as a decrepit invalid with drainage bottles hanging from me, infected with invasive candidiasis (from which, four out of ten people who get it, die), a collapsed lung, suffering from excruciatingly painful bedsores and an agonizingly painful wound in my abdomen which, despite following the Mayo\’s recommendations to the letter, would not heal.
Due to their mistake, the Mayo Clinic nearly killed me, caused me much agony, took over two years of my life away, and then, after agreeing to cancel their bill (to see the Mayo\’s letter agreeing this, please view page 6 at http://www.mayovictim,com), waited until the time limit for filing a medical malpractice suit ran out and then, in May 2005, sued me. A time line, copies of documents, letters and photographs detailing my Mayo Clinic experiences and subsequent events may be found on this site: http://www.mayovictim.com
If I heard right about 2 million patients are infected with MRSA a year. And about 90,000 die each year. Why doesn.t anybody care? Why are Hospitial not accountable? I have been reading that most of the Mrsa infections can be stop by Pre screening patiants before surgerys.Making it a mandentory requirement of every hospitalto do the screening. It all comes down to WEARING GLOVES and WASHING HANDS
You would think that Hospitals would follow this pracrise to save money,and timeMany States are not required to report infections.etc. I know of this experiance because I am a survivior OF MRSA.BUT I was told it is never out of your system and subject for return.
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Beware of the blanket consent form. I have lost function of right hand and because consent form I am in the dumpster of society, unable to work in my old job and disabled with no recourse. Beware of HMO style Doctors, if you have to wait 1 hour to be seen 5 minutes, change Doctors this is a bad sign.
As a professional in health care the number one bit of advice I can give anyone is assign a heath care proxy legally.The hospital should suppy you with the neccessary paper work upon entering the hospital.Let your wishes be known to this proxy.Be specific as to what you want done or not done to you in the event you can not answer for yourself.I have seen many patients without this end up chronically trached and peg tube fed until their demise.Some doctors will try to convince your health care proxy that a trach and peg are good things,chances are they are not.Understand that it is the quaility of a persons life that counts not the quanity.I see people whose lives are prolonged and they are suffering each and every day.All of which could be avoided with a strong advocate,a heath care proxy.
I too, got infected with MRSA after my hip replacement surgery in january of 06. I ended up getting the replacement removed in February, and an antibiotic spacer installed. In March, I received yet another spacer because the infection wasn\’t gone. In May, I received another hip replacement. My surgeon thought the infection was gone because an aspiration of my hip showed no infection. In August, I had to have the hip taken out once again because the infection was still present, and another spacer was installed. This time, I had a different surgeon and was at a different hospital. In October, another spacer was installed, and in December 06, another hip was installed. So far, it seems as though this one is staying. However, I have since lost my job (I was \”disability separated\”-a nice way of firing you when you\’re sick on Feb 28,2007), my place to live, and still can\’t walk on my own, therefore, can\’t get another job or go back to my old one. Now, without health insurance, I can\’t go to physical therapy either now!! I ended up getting on social security disability and applying for medicaid. I only get 800 per month, and now the social worker tells me I have to pay 265 dollars per month for medicaid coverage because I make too much off of social security!! I can\’t believe all this has happened to me just because of MRSA!! The surgeon I have had since August is wonderful, and the surgeon I had before then was wonderful, but the hospital where I contracted the MRSA from was horrible to me when I first went back to them a week after the first surgery complaining of increased pain and lots of drainage. They sent me back home and didn\’t even culture the drainage!! I can\’t help but wonder if maybe they had cultured the drainage, the MRSA could have been stopped earlier!! My whole life has been turned upside down by this. To make matters worse, before MRSA,unemployment, and no health insurance, I myself was a nurse!! That\’s the very job I can no longer perform!!! Now I can\’t even get around on my own, and have to barely scrape by on income per month that is 200 dollars less than I made in one week!!! I am STILL on antibiotics, and have no way yet of getting the prescriptions refilled until I get APPROVED for the medicaid!! This is disgusting!!! It all makes me very angry, and I can\’t do a darn thing about it, because I can\’t walk on my own yet, get another job and get back on my feet. I feel so darn helpless and strapped, it\’s unreal.
ibelieve spring valley hospital in las vegas is one of the worst,my husband die from negelance and they stript him from his dicnity before he take his last breath.i am walking arount lost for months,and is unbearable to thing about.it ever get any easiar?
MRSA is epidemic in hospitals. The reason you don\’t know about it before you go in to a facility is because there is no national accountability, required reporting, no watchdog unaffiliated or unbiased agency monitoring errors, infections or negligence in hospitals. We think there should be or that there already is a system in place, but the truth is the healthcare industry is very careful to avoid having to account for or report errors. When an extreme example presents, as in Walter Reed\’s outpatient facility, people were complaining for years about the problems there but no one was listening until the Washington Post \’broke\’ the story. Now there is a huge outcry for reform. Still people believe this is an isolated case of neglect. Not so! My husband contracted two infections in a hospital, MRSA and Pseudomonas. Both were preventable. The hospital and the physicians concealed the infections from us. In fact the victim or patient is so often blamed for \”being too sick\” in these cases, or too old or immune compromised. The fact is that MRSA is an in-hospital acquired infection spread from bed to bed by unclean, unsanitized methods. The head of an ICU unit told me that such infections and their spread were \”the nature of the beast.\” Her implication was that there was little that could be done about it. She condemned my husband to die after he had walked into the hospital for treatment two months prior after a prior discharge with active infections. He died two months later as she predicted from the after-effects and complications of MRSA, Pseudomonas and an absolute uncompromising negligence. I sympathize with you all over the MRSA effects on your lives but your stories are far from rare. It happens all the time to those who simply elect surgery, not just to the super ill. These epidemics of hospital acquired infections are hospitals\’ \’dirty\’ secrets. Physicians realize the problems but fail to report or demand reform either. To everyone in the industry, \”It\’s not my problem\” seems to be their take on the matter. Until the public demands more, we will continue to suffer this gross form of negligence. What you can do? Tell your story to everyone and anyone who will listen: Newspapers, advocates, health departments, state legislators, governors, Senators and Congressmen and women. Only when there is an outcry like that at Walter Reed will the industry begin to clean up their act. Demand reform! The industry wants tort reform to prevent you from financial remedy for negligence. Don\’t let them get by with it! I tell my story to every forum that I can find because it is all I can do in my husband\’s memory is to help prevent someone else from dying as he did.
Hi Ms. Milopoulos. My father died this past year due to the same thing, it was a living nightmare what he went through. He had no major illness, just was not feeling well & was a senior too. They killed him step by step, I tried to save him but it almost seemed beyond my control what was happening to him. He was my best friend & partner in this life. We had plans to do things in the future. His life was taken from him & me, & they act like it is \”o.k.\” becuase he was older.
I just wanted to say you unfortunately are not alone in this horrible scene going on every day in hospitals. The legal recourse is very small so they can continue to do it every single day with no consequence.
They too took away my father\’s dignity, or tried to. It was a nightmare.
I am not over it, I wonder if I ever will be. We just need to find a way to \”cope\” & perhaps do something to change this horrible situation.
My heart goes out to you,
Take care,
Penni.
To Julia: You are so right. They try to claim I got MRSA because I am diabetic. However, my diabetes is controlled. They can\’t say I am too old because I was only 39 in 2006. My first surgeon referred me to my present surgeon because he stated \”there wasn\’t anything else he could do for me, and my health problems were now past his scope of experience.\” I don\’t fault him, because he tried, and referred me to one of the top 5 osteosurgeons in the country, but I do fault the hospital for their horrible treatment of me when I went back to them a week later with obvious problems and severe pain and they sent me back home telling me there wasn\’t anything wrong. They treated me horribly that night. I had always been very conscientious about washing my hands, and \”clean\” and \”dirty\” aspects of my field, but I have seen those that have not been as conscientious. I myself had had to remind other nurses I have been working with before about washing their hands, disposing of contaminated dressings and such in the proper manner, etc., so I know problems exist. I guess I was just naive enough to believe in the healthcare professionals that were taking care of me. I am however, grateful that I am at least alive. Even though my loved one wasn\’t lost to me through a healthcare situation, I still feel the loss everyday. My prayers are with you.
my father died 10 years ago because a hospital was not smart enough to do their work well.he had a head trauma which resulted in a need of a catscan of his brain.So they did the test and then let him sit there for 3 hours before they decided there was no one there that could even read the results. so unfortuantely when they decided to move him to another hosptial it was already to late his brain had swelled so bad he was clinically declared brain dead. the doctor at the other hospital said if we got him there a few hours earlier he could have saved his life. so there you have it my father is dead now and they got away with it. there needs to be a way of recourse against stupidity in a hospital.
On October 12, 2001 I went into the Mayo Clinic, (St. Luke\’s Hospital) Jacksonville, Florida for open-heart surgery. I was told I would be in there for six days. Due to a careless mistake the Mayo punctured my stomach in two places. I was their involuntary guest for almost five weeks. While in the Mayo one of my lungs collapsed, I contracted MRSA, peritonitis, pneumonia and my gall bladder stopped working. When I went home it was as a decrepit invalid with drainage bottles hanging from me, infected with invasive candidiasis (from which, four out of ten people who get it, die), a collapsed lung, suffering from excruciatingly painful bedsores and an agonizingly painful wound in my abdomen which, despite following the Mayo\’s recommendations to the letter, would not heal.
Due to their mistake, the Mayo Clinic nearly killed me, caused me much agony, took over two years of my life away, and then, after agreeing to cancel their bill (to see the Mayo\’s letter agreeing this, please view page 6 at http://www.mayovictim,com), waited until the time limit for filing a medical malpractice suit ran out and then, in May 2005, sued me. A time line, copies of documents, letters and photographs detailing my Mayo Clinic experiences and subsequent events may be found on this site:
http://www.mayovictim.com
If I heard right about 2 million patients are infected with MRSA a year. And about 90,000 die each year. Why doesn.t anybody care? Why are Hospitial not accountable? I have been reading that most of the Mrsa infections can be stop by Pre screening patiants before surgerys.Making it a mandentory requirement of every hospitalto do the screening. It all comes down to WEARING GLOVES and WASHING HANDS
You would think that Hospitals would follow this pracrise to save money,and timeMany States are not required to report infections.etc. I know of this experiance because I am a survivior OF MRSA.BUT I was told it is never out of your system and subject for return.