Back from shopping and WOW!
We are in a one troll of a weekend!
I hope Mary is on duty this weekend!
Please notice there is no bad blood prior to the thread between Pranzertanker and GBTrice and in fact none of these posts seem to be written by the same person, perhaps GBTrice has alters? I questioned them, challenged them, on their HIPAA thread because of the obvious lack of consistancy, yet no attack against me, what gives? No Veronica, don't be disappointed you don't have a thread dedicated to you yet!
rmet4nzkx said:
In your other post you claimed to be a retired physician, here you sound like another person are you sharing this moniker?
It depends on the circumstances and why you don't want both doctors to have access to your entire medical record?
(This sort of behavior sends up a red flag for drug seeking or defensiveness for some other behavior. Also I find no recors anywhere in the USA for a physician GB Trice in AMA records, perhaps he lost his license and is retierd for that reason?)
GBTrice said:
As a retired physician I would agree that the practice in ER's is terrible alot (not of course 'all') of the time.
However...if you have a WORTHY malpractice case...the action, or in this case omission of the ER physician would need to be THE THING that directly lead to your mom having a problem i.e. her kidney problem OR if death came about shortly thereafter.
ALSO...had your mom seen a physician in the year before? Reason for this Q is that, did they check your mom's kidney function?
Was the bad kidney function a RESULT of the accident? And IF the ER doctor would have suspected an injury in the area of the back or abdomen, should a urinalysis been ordered? If that was done, was it abnormal.
Let's take one other comparison. IF your mom had been in an accident and had perhaps a concussion, yet the ER doctor failed to pick up the MELANOMA on the back of her leg that she died from 6 months later. Would this be malpractice? The answer: NO. The 2 weren't related. IF on the other hand she hand been to a DERMATOLOGIST in the week after the accident complaining that she had a couple of moles that needed checked out and he/she MISSED the melanoma (they should do a head to toe, front/back exam) and she subsequently died from the Melanoma, now THIS IS malpractice.
I hope this helped!
panzertanker said:
Answer those questions, and ellen's. Multisystem organ failure can happen following a trauma, but you are stating one system failier; renal.
If she had not had a physical eval in the last 6-12 months prior to the accident, it would be difficult to apply blame for an undiagnosed problem. It is NOT necessary to perform bloodwork at all in some MVC's, so I am not surprised by this. It is also not the duty of the ER to ascertain chronic renal insufficiency in a pt who presents with MVC trauma. Their job it to treat the acute problems. Almost ALL d/c instructions state "follow up with P MD in 2-5 days for recheck...."
Good luck.... this may be a tough row to hoe unless you can prove negligence in not catching acute renal failure...
Also to what do you attribute the statement "a week later her kidneys failed due to this accident"?
Who told you this and verified it?
So what is up with this troll?
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