Can we have a thread on medical malpractice cases that you've experienced?
This is not for schizo conspiracies, only actual cases you or someone close to you experienced.
I'll give you some examples:
>Grandfather is quite ill from something on his legs, they decide to give him a strong anti inflammatory. There's scientific literature that this medicine is not recommended for very old people (my grandpa was 80 something at the time), due to risk of liquid in lungs. My mother pleads a million times to the doctor, to no avail. My grandfather develops liquid in the lungs and almost dies, the hospital forces a change of doctors and stop the medicine and he survives but is never really the same after that.
>That same grandfather a few years later gets hospitalized again for a different reason, and they jack him up full of antidepressants and shit just so he stops complaining. He comes back home and is barely able to walk by himself without falling on the ground, and this was not happening before his hospital stay or during. He died two weeks later.
>Grandmother was prescribed at least 20 or 30 medications at different points at the end of her life. Every time a new specialist got involved they would change 10 of these, which the other specialists would complain about. Caregivers just pumped her up with quetiapine until she was basically a zombie and stopped complaining.
>I tell a doctor I've seen papers showing NSAIDs (ibuprofen, aspirin, etc) increase tinnitus, ask him if I can't take something else for some pain I was feeling. He says he's used ibuprofen for 30 years and never heard of this, prescriebs me maximum dosage. My tinnitus shoots through the roof, I change to a different non NSAID painkiller and the tinnitus goes back to base level.
This is not for schizo conspiracies, only actual cases you or someone close to you experienced.
I'll give you some examples:
>Grandfather is quite ill from something on his legs, they decide to give him a strong anti inflammatory. There's scientific literature that this medicine is not recommended for very old people (my grandpa was 80 something at the time), due to risk of liquid in lungs. My mother pleads a million times to the doctor, to no avail. My grandfather develops liquid in the lungs and almost dies, the hospital forces a change of doctors and stop the medicine and he survives but is never really the same after that.
>That same grandfather a few years later gets hospitalized again for a different reason, and they jack him up full of antidepressants and shit just so he stops complaining. He comes back home and is barely able to walk by himself without falling on the ground, and this was not happening before his hospital stay or during. He died two weeks later.
>Grandmother was prescribed at least 20 or 30 medications at different points at the end of her life. Every time a new specialist got involved they would change 10 of these, which the other specialists would complain about. Caregivers just pumped her up with quetiapine until she was basically a zombie and stopped complaining.
>I tell a doctor I've seen papers showing NSAIDs (ibuprofen, aspirin, etc) increase tinnitus, ask him if I can't take something else for some pain I was feeling. He says he's used ibuprofen for 30 years and never heard of this, prescriebs me maximum dosage. My tinnitus shoots through the roof, I change to a different non NSAID painkiller and the tinnitus goes back to base level.
