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Wrong medicine, Nurse arriving with

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lyn1951
lyn1951

I wish to bring to peoples attention - YOU CANNOT BE TOO CAREFUL - When I was in hospital, under serious pain killers nurse arrived with medication in small paper cup, and said thats your medication. and stood there expecting me to take it, I questioned why it didn't look like my usual medication, a small white triangle, and  tiny white circle. She tried to re-assure me it was for me, I refused to take it. She got irritated and with a huff said I'm getting the senior, never saw her again. I would suggest that maybe there was someone else on the ward with the same surname. I have had this happen a number of times during my 64 years, once when my Dad was dying in 1983, his life saved by my sister, a nurse, pulling his drip lines after he had been given wrong medicine, she was in a power of strife with hospital board, and at the same time congratulated for saving her fathers life, and again in 2011 when my husband was in congestive heart failure, nearly double dosed with blood thinning medication, only the fact that I questioned what the nurse was about to give him, warafrin, and was able to tell her that not 5 minutes previous he had already had that medication, and I had to threaten her that if she administered she would be talking to lawyers.

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  • deb97936
    deb97936 lyn1951

    Posted

    WOW...  your stories I could say are not to dissimilar to folks experiences here in NZ at any Public Hospital over the years...  Also in rest homes, mistakes/errors are made...  even with the best of check lists in place, where ever there is a human element sadly we get errors...  

     

  • lyn1951
    lyn1951

    Posted

    I have also made a point of getting printouts of all our medications from the chemist and reading. Dr's take notice when you arrive with that printout and have highlighted the line "should not be taking when taking -----".     I also saved my own life with a new medication for arthritis. Apparently a very small number of patients had a problem with High Blood Pressure, not on MIMS, I questioned weather the medication could be the cause of BP, my GP Dr denied  that was the cause. When I got home rang the drug company/manufcturer as listed on the side of bottle. They asked who my GP was, 20mins later  abrupt phone call from GP, don't take any more of that arthritis medicine, and hung up.  I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of GP's office when the drug co rang him.
    • deb97936
      deb97936 lyn1951

      Posted

      My dear friend 'Died' as a result of Trial medicines for Rhuemy...   She'd been on a approx 3 trials previously then the last one was amazing!  she was practically all back to normal...  Even with her Fibro..  BUTBUT BUT...   She was already on BP pills (high dosage) for a quite some time.  However, on this trial drug her BP was spiking massively...On instructions from her GP to ring with her BP results she was doing so, for a few weeks BUT he never bothered to return her calls,zero nothing.  She was also experiencing and had done for a couple of years a terrible pain in her back that ran round her side and just under her boob.  He took NO notice of that either when she would complain about it.  The very day, that very morning she was up at the doctor for her usual blood test business, and she again reported how bad this pain had gotten..excrutiating...he sent her home with tablets for Gall Bladder???   She 'died' approx 4 or so hours after her doctor visit.  HIGH BP's ...  EXCRUTIATING PAIN in the Back ..Durrrrrr....  Yup there is NO let up, as there have been a good number of folk in the township come to some kind of grief...  and the doctor is so dam uninterested to pull his weight..  So is his colleague now it seems.  A chap has had Heart chart readouts that were definitely NOT normal, 'as the doc said, 'Oh his printouts have been like that for a long time'...If it weren't for the Ambulance chap pointing out 'It still doesn't make it RIGHT'  The doctor would not have taken the printout back to the med center and checked with the main hospital.  And the Helicopter would not have picked the guy up and taken him to the main hospital, and the chap would not have had the urgent surgery he needed to save his life.  NO, he would have been left to die of the several heart attacks he'd had in the last week, still the big one, that she was still ignoring!!,   

      YUP, you do have to dam well wonder don't you!!   

  • Outhwaite
    Outhwaite lyn1951

    Posted

    I have an extremely good doctor, thank goodness. I have quite a few illnesses and he is prompt in sending me to the right people, after two strokes, two heart attacks and various flare ups with COPD. Also paramedics know what they are doing when taking you to hospital in London UK.  Where my youngest son lives, Colchester have made many many errors and caused  unnecessary deaths although, in fairness, I must admit that when he got Class A Streptoccol in his hand and thought he only had the flu until he saw a red line travelling up his arm, he admitted himself to hospital and they were extremely quick in getting into surgery.with four different antibiotics in a drip. If he had left it any longer, about 30 minutes, according to the doctor, he would have lost his arm or died through acute blood poisoning. He had trouble with one of the male nurses, who couldn't be bothered to go and get the forth antibiotic (the most important one) and had the sense to demand the doctor visited him to clarify what was needed. The nurse got into serious trouble for not getting that forth antibiotic. After two operations, first one being left covered but left open for further operation to sew it back up, he was then referred to a very good physio woman who brought him back to full health very quickly, telling him exactly what exercises to do daily and to tell him he MUST exercise his fingers and hand in an ice bucket 3 times a day and wear a tight glove over his carpel tunnels. Yet this hospital keep making errors after errors and many people have died there unnecessarily. Sheer luck that he got a good surgeon and good physio treatment. 
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