Lost a friend

[No Use]

Re: Lost a friend

man...my condolences, my brother, and to his family...he's home with the Lord now...

[Sukisyn]

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Sorry to her about the loss of your friend. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[1trussell]

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According to studies done by M.D.s for the last 20 or so years, as of 2001 the number of deaths by iatrogenic injury (physician induced, adverse effects of pharmaceuticals, and medical/hospital error) was over 780,000 per year. Here's a quote from an article and the link.

"The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)"

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/..._death_01.html

This is just one article. I have read more. One study in 1985 stated that the deaths caused by iatrogenic injury and medical/hospital error was about 180,000 a year (a very conservative number to be sure). That was roughly equal to 3 jumbo jets crashing every 2 days, year round.

Why do we allow this to happen? If any other agency, corporation, proffession etc. in the world had numbers even half of those, they would be shut down immediately.

Remember, these studies were done by M.D.s about the medical proffession. Do we have to keep losing loved ones due to circumstances that could have been avoided?

[Jack The Riffer]

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Thanks Everybody.

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

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That is just tragicly wrong...very sorry to hear such a thing.

[guitarshredder]

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He was transferred to a nursing home for round the clock care and last night somebody at the nursing home forgot to aspirate the trachea tube and he choked to death. I still can't believe he survived all his injuries to die because some moron didn't do their job!!! [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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That idiot who didn't do his job should be punished!!!

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[Deneb]

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I'm sorry to hear about your loss, I indeed know what it's like to lose a close friend. It's hard. I still don't know how to deal with it sometimes.

I wish the best for you.

[lerxstcat]

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Jack, 'm very sorry for your loss. It reminds me of my mother's loss. She was hit in a crosswalk and had multiple broken bonmes, and afte 2 days was deemed to be doing well enough to be transferred from ICU to the orthopedics ward (where she wasn't on monitors). Next morning I got a call that "sometime between 5:00 and 5:30 AM", between rounds, she'd suffered a cardiac arrest. No monitors, no way they knew til they made the next round. They "revived her onto life support, but she never woke up and passed on 5 days later.

Now I could just say it was her time, but she was only 60 years old. They should have kept her in ICU another day and they'd have known instantly when the heart monitor went off. It could have meant her life. I still think of that 21 years later.

Anyway, Jack, all that is to explain that I really do know how you feel, and wish you peace and for your friend to rest in peace. I hope the person who failed your friend pays for his/her negligence. God bless y'all and my condolences to you, and his family and friends.

[1trussell]

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Lerx, I wonder if an insurance company had anything to do with her getting transferred out of ICU early. That happened to my grandmother last year. Because of insurance B.S. the hospital was going to send her home with the nutrapenic feeding still attached.

I just think that stuff like this shouldn't happen, but unfortunately it always will. That is, unless we as the public can stand together and force some changes in the system.

[pro-fusion]

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My condolences, Jack. No matter what happens to the hospital, it can't bring your friend back. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[JacksonConcept]

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Sorry about that man. I've lost 7 old friends due to car/motorcycle wrecks, drugs and suicide. It ain't easy to lose someone you grew up with. Peace.