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For the lawyers and doctors a "hypothetical":
Someone from your family goes in to a hospital for out-patient surgery to remove a mole which could be skin cancer related. They dig it out (hack job maybe according to pictures?) and send this person home, no prescription before or after for infections. The patient goes home Wednesday, doesn't feel great Thursday but not awful but begins to get flu-like symptoms by the weekend. By Sunday it's bad enough to get to the hospital immediately (missing Fathers Day) in which they realize this is very serious. A smaller city hospital air lifts him to Hartford for reasons in which we did not know until the realization was he was in trouble.
Long story sad and short, he passes last evening due to what they perceive to be complications from the surgery. Friends closer to the hospital world throw out things like nosocomial etc etc..
If it's your sisters son do you offer help in taking this to legal action for her as well as his wife of 3 months?
I am sure there are many more questions and I am sure this hypothetical family member should have been less stubborn but there seems to be some very intelligent medical care providers as well as lawyers out there who may have a word or 2 of advice in a situation like this?
Thanks
Someone from your family goes in to a hospital for out-patient surgery to remove a mole which could be skin cancer related. They dig it out (hack job maybe according to pictures?) and send this person home, no prescription before or after for infections. The patient goes home Wednesday, doesn't feel great Thursday but not awful but begins to get flu-like symptoms by the weekend. By Sunday it's bad enough to get to the hospital immediately (missing Fathers Day) in which they realize this is very serious. A smaller city hospital air lifts him to Hartford for reasons in which we did not know until the realization was he was in trouble.
Long story sad and short, he passes last evening due to what they perceive to be complications from the surgery. Friends closer to the hospital world throw out things like nosocomial etc etc..
If it's your sisters son do you offer help in taking this to legal action for her as well as his wife of 3 months?
I am sure there are many more questions and I am sure this hypothetical family member should have been less stubborn but there seems to be some very intelligent medical care providers as well as lawyers out there who may have a word or 2 of advice in a situation like this?
Thanks