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A SICK teenager who pleaded with doctors to keep her in hospital died three days after being sent home with just a few *paracetamol, it emerged yesterday.
Amy Carter, 15, told doctors “I’m dying” only to be told by medics that she would be fine and told to take “plenty of rest”.
I went to the emergency room about a week ago with numbness on the left side of my face because I was told by my doctor to go due to symptoms of a possible stroke. I sat there for 2 1/2 hrs and watched people with minor injuries get treated before me. After I finally got in and after all the testing, blood, urine and CT scan, all were negative. The doctor told me he thought I had a mini stroke or was in the middle of having one and wanted to keep me overnight. I said no, but agreed to follow up with my doctor and did. He diagnosed me as having a facial palsy, this makes sense since I hadn't felt well the week leading up to this and this can be caused by a virus. The point is, why did they make me wait so long with symptoms of a possible stroke?
The point is, why did they make me wait so long with symptoms of a possible stroke?
Because an alarming number of ER personnel have adopted the bakery take-a-number system instead of using TRIAGE.
It's the same in our local hospital, according to friends who work in the ER.
Welfare patients use it for minor ailments because they get seen whenever they feel like dropping by in lieu of making an appointment with a physician's office.
Illegals abuse the system terribly, and of course, a translator has to be with them at all times.
My friends have told me some real horror stories that make my blood boil.
"But tragic Amy had developed a lethal combination of conditions never seen before and suffered multiple organ failure and four heart attacks."
It's tragic, but you can't admit people just because they want you to. The same people would be screaming that she was wasting money and shouldn't be in if she presented with feeling sick and no determinable evidence of anything wrong at all. Which happens a great deal, and often docs keep people for observation over the complaints of people saying they spend too much if there is any question.
It's tragic, but no evidence of something docs have never encountered before in the history of medicine is little fault of anyone involved.
Because an alarming number of ER personnel have adopted the bakery take-a-number system instead of using TRIAGE.
It's the same in our local hospital, according to friends who work in the ER.
Welfare patients use it for minor ailments because they get seen whenever they feel like dropping by in lieu of making an appointment with a physician's office.
Illegals abuse the system terribly, and of course, a translator has to be with them at all times.
My friends have told me some real horror stories that make my blood boil.
American citizen? - you can wait!
You are right about the take a number, that is exactly what it felt like, they call it triage, what a joke. I doubt the girl in triage had any idea what a stroke is, let alone the symptoms. The person in triage should at least have an RN degree.
Because an alarming number of ER personnel have adopted the bakery take-a-number system instead of using TRIAGE.
The ER's I've been in do use a triage system at check-in. I've never seen one where it's first-come-first-served.
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Welfare patients use it for minor ailments because they get seen whenever they feel like dropping by in lieu of making an appointment with a physician's office.
Welfare recipients and others use the ER because they don't have insurance and can't afford to go to a physician's office. County ERs are busy because so many Americans can't afford to see a doctor.
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You are already seeing incidents like this in the USA as illegal aliens overwhelm hospital emergency rooms.
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Illegals abuse the system terribly, and of course, a translator has to be with them at all times.
Yes, if it wasn't for illegals we'd have concierge service and bonbons at county ER's.
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American citizen? - you can wait!
If you have insurance can't you bypass county in favor of privately run hospitals?
I remember in the 80's toxic shock was killing young girls. I thought it was gone ... we had a local girl pass away of the same thing a couple months ago. Unfortunately, TSS is confusing to diagnose because there are so many symptoms of other things.
TSS is never going to spring to anyone's mind as one of the top possible diagnoses...couple that with an unusual presentation of it...? Staying at the hospital may not have saved this girl's life.
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