#MedicalMistake

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[selkyle24]

Is It the End?

Losing a medical malpractice case can feel like the end, but it’s also a moment to recalibrate and figure out what comes next.

Medical malpractice cases are emotionally taxing, and after months (or years) of legal battles, it might be time to prioritize your own health and wellbeing. Remember: a loss doesn’t define you. Speak with your attorney, get clarity, and decide what moving forward looks like for you.

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Resources:

https://www.thechampionfirm.com/most-dangerous-medical-mistakes-infographic

[mariebenz]

Single-Patient Rooms Did Not Decrease MRSA or C.Diff Infections

MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr. Todd Lee Todd Campbell Lee MD MPH FACP FIDSA Consultant in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Director, MI4 Clinical Trials Platform Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University Montreal, Quebec  MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: For a number of years people have been advocating for a move towards single-patient rooms in hospital design.  This was articulately argued for in an opinion piece by Detsky and Etchells in 2008 (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/182433) as being important for a move to safe and patient-centered design. One of the major selling points has always been a reduction in the risk of nosocomial, or hospital-associated, infections given reduced opportunities for contamination between patients; however, only a few studies have specifically looked at this issue.  Overall, despite some strong work, many of these studies were limited by only looking at specific units, over limited periods of time,  and using before-after comparisons which did not account for change over time either within or outside of the institution. We knew that in 2015 our old hospital would close and within the same day all patients would be moved to a brand new hospital with 100% single patient rooms -- most of which have a private bathroom for patients and a separate hand-washing sink for staff.  So in 2014, we designed this study, obtained ethics review, and then waited patiently for several years to pass after the move so that we could rigorously evaluate the impact.  We looked at monthly rates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) colonizations and infections, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization and infections, and Clostridium (now Clostrideroides) difficile infections (CDI). We chose these because we had good long term data on their rates and because we could compare the rates over time before and after the move and contrast them with the province of Quebec as a whole. MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings? Response: We demonstrated that new VRE colonization and VRE infection dramatically decreased by up to 75% and 70% respectively and have remained low since.   We also showed that new MRSA colonization decreased by 43% and has remained low since.  Interestingly, there was no effect on MRSA infection or CDI.  This is interesting and worthy of explanation.    Single patient rooms presumably block colonization -- and when the dominant source of colonization is healthcare-acquired, this will translate into a reduction in infection rates.  However, if you are already colonized with the organism, the single patient room can't prevent that.  People who arrive at the hospital already colonized with MRSA, CDI or another organism are not protected against infection by being in a single patient room.  That's a function of other aspects of infection control and antibiotic stewardship.  So, while we reduced MRSA colonization, the volume of patients being admitted who already had MRSA colonization was high enough that we could not demonstrate a reduction in rate.  Similarly, since we don't screen patients for C. difficile colonization, we couldn't evaluate the impact on colonization but it appears as though more people are arriving colonized than are becoming colonized at our centre. MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report? Response: Single patient rooms undoubtedly have some advantages.  The evidence in support of them in preventing hospital associated colonization and infection is now much stronger.  However, we likely need to consider the concept of "colonization pressure", particularly in the community, when we are trying to understand how single patient rooms may impact infection rates for other organisms and in other jurisdictions. MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work? Response: We would have loved to be able to show that single patient rooms reduced the rates of multi-drug resistant gram negatives but we didn't have enough historical data (or provincial data) to show that.  As these pathogens emerge in the province of Quebec, it may be possible to contrast how fast they arise here vs. similar population centres and see if single patient rooms help prevent these as well. Formal economic modelling of the costs saved through single patient rooms is ideally also forthcoming.    Disclosures: Drs. Lee and McDonald receive salary support from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé. Citation:  McDonald EG, Dendukuri N, Frenette C, Lee TC. Time-Series Analysis of Health Care–Associated Infections in a New Hospital With All Private Rooms. JAMA Intern Med. Published online August 19, 2019. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2798   Last Modified :       The information on MedicalResearch.com is provided for educational purposes only, and is in no way intended to diagnose, cure, or treat any medical or other condition. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health and ask your doctor any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. In addition to all other limitations and disclaimers in this agreement, service provider and its third party providers disclaim any liability or loss in connection with the content provided on this website.   Read the full article

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[mcbeamon]

Day 57: Pay Close Attention To Details

I didn’t write a blog post, I thought as I woke up. I skipped day 57. A lot happened but I ended up talking to one of my brothers for nearly two hours. Afterwards, I was hungry and exhausted. And, I was still thinking about my conversation about the health and well-being of my parents. I couldn’t focus on typing a blog post.

I let myself off the hook long enough to shower and get dressed for work.…

[aestheticalgarbage]

20 followers I'd like to know better

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[livingwithscheuermanns]

Walking Medical Mistake

It’s 5am, I woke up angry and couldn’t get back to sleep. I can’t shake this anger towards the medical community. Friday I had an appointment with a specialist who was supposed to be helping me deal with chronic pain. After being kept waiting over an hour for my appointment and being called in once prematurely (my first appointment they made mistakes too, this doesn’t bode well in the confidence department for them) I come to find a chart hanging on the wall, it’s a chart of spinal diseases.... copyright 1984-1986... hmmmmm coincidence? The one disease missing from the chart... SCHEUERMANNS! I take note of this and when the doctor finally arrives, I make a joke about this chart being outdated and that scheuermanns isn’t listed. The response i was met with was unbelievable. The specialist sees nothing wrong with the chart as “nothing has changed since then”.... REALLY??? nothing has changed? so my disease doesn’t exist then? I don’t have chronic pain all day ever day, I don’t have searing pain in my spine after short activities like walking to the bathroom and/or showering. I must sleep so soundly and comfortably, I don’t have constant nausea, and I certainly don’t lose sensation to my legs. Nope, none of that must happen because scheuermanns doesn’t exist. 

Perhaps you are wondering WHY this makes me so bloody angry.... well... the truth is that my mum ASKED the doctor why my spine was curving when I was 7... she was told that I was too fat. Plain and simple. Lose weight and the spine will straighten. To satisfy my mums questions, they screened me for scoliosis and called it a day. “Don’t worry, your daughter will be fine, she’s just too fat”... Now if that in itself doesn’t anger you, how about being told the SAME thing, that you are just too fat and have bad posture from a SPECIALIST! 23 years later, telling me the SAME answer when in fact, I have been tested prior and indeed have scheuermanns. 

Riddle me this: How many people fought to the death that the world was flat???

I am a walking medical mistake. The doctors didn’t know what to look for and by the time they did (and only because I kept pressing for answers at age 26) it was too late. I have a severe spinal deformity that causes me increasingly horrible pain each and every day. The doctors don’t want to admit they were wrong, they also don’t want to admit they know NOTHING of this disease!!! GET EDUCATED THEN! This IS a real disease! You have NO RIGHT to tell me that I am not in pain, that there’s nothing wrong with me. YOU fucked up! The medical community fucked up and now I am the one who pays the price. 

I research every day on this disease, there isn’t much information out there which is one of the most disheartening parts of all of this. Of course the medical community has no idea about this disease, I am one of the few who have it! To be classified as having scheuermanns, you have to have both the kyphosis of the upper spine and lordosis of the lower spine. I have both, with prominent disfiguration. I also have schmorls nodes on my vertebrae, meaning that I have little boney nubbins on my spine where there shouldn’t be.  So combine that with vertebrae that are shaped like a door wedge instead of a square. Now imagine that the door wedges are formed into a C shape (my upper spine) and try to straighten those out... you’re running into a problem right? all the ends of the wide side are touching and the thin ends are pulled right apart right??? Now imagine that happening INSIDE my body each time I try to have “good posture”... I can’t even begin to tell you the pain it causes. 

*sigh* I am frustrated. 

[breenwillifordinjurylaw]

Life is full of ironies, and I want to point out a significant one that effects everyone, including you. The Centers for Disease Control reports that about 47,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2014, which it rightly describes as an epidemic. You can find the summary here: http://bit.ly/2im7Ftr

The response, of course, is that we need to again declare war on drugs, pass more laws, put more people in jail, and so on. The problem is that we have tried this strategy for decades at an incredible expense to the public and it does not work. But, it is politically popular so I don’t see any real changes in strategy there.

Now for the irony. In 2016 a Johns Hopkins study published in the British Medical Journal reported that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States; heart disease and cancer are first and second. So how many people die each year from medical errors? 250,000. Yes, you read that right. Five times as many people die from medical errors as drug overdoses. Oddly, no one calls this an epidemic.

Here’s a link to the BMJ study: http://bit.ly/2im4MZw

The war on drugs is popular, but where is the war on the medical errors that kill five times as many people and harm thousands of others? It doesn’t exist, even though it costs billions of dollars and ruins lives far and away beyond drugs. Now for the supreme irony.

Instead, war has been declared on the victims of medical errors. That’s right, the politicians who hate government also hate the courthouse, and they are taking away the rights of people who have been harmed by medical errors. Your legislators in Frankfort will soon meet, and one of their top priorities is not to fix a medical system that kills people but instead to protect it by putting drastic limits on your right to seek compensation from the people and the hospitals that make these mistakes.

I’ll be reporting on this some more, so stay tuned.