11-23-2023, 02:58 AM
A friend of mine’s son had a headache.. my friend told him to take two and see what’s up in the morning, the headache persisted..
Three days later the headache was still going strong.. getting worse. The kid was obviously in agony.
My friend decided to take his son to the hospital. Hilo Medical Center. Hours.. like all day and into the night.. later a doctor finally decided to image the kid’s brain.. and saw a tumor.
The doctor decided, on his own in the ER without any further investigations or doctor's consultations, the kid needed immediate surgery..
The doctor cut into the kid’s skull, and immediately decided he was out of his depth.. and he closed everything back up without cutting anything.
Anyone with a skull being opened must have a shunt installed to allow the excess fluids that naturally accumulate as part of the healing process to drain..
The doctor put the shunt in backwards.
By morning the kids was in a coma as the fluids accumulated and put excessive pressure on his brain. And the doctor wasn’t akamai enough to realize he installed the shunt wrong.
Simultaneously there was a pediatric brain surgeon’s convention at the Mauna Lani.. and the kids mother went there and stood up in a room full of doctors and begged them for help. A doctor from the mainland approached her and within hours had the kids records, and the next morning he was flown to the mainland where that doctor removed the tumor and fixed him up.
A year later I was summoned to jury duty, and, as a room full of perspective jurors was ushered into the courtroom the judge read an outline of the case. Someone was suing the hospital for negligence. The room erupted in laugher. Immediately the judge became upset and cleared the room of everyone except the lawyers and those that laughed. I was one of them. As the judge asked each in turn why they laughed each recounted a horror story involving malpractice on the part of the hospital. When I was asked about my laugher I recounted the story above, and, of course, the lawyers for the defense asked that I be excused.
When the case was reported in the news, the hospital lost, of course.
If you’re going to the hospital because you need their help.. keep going until you get to Kamuela. Queens ain't the cat's meow, but damn at least they’re a real hospital.
Three days later the headache was still going strong.. getting worse. The kid was obviously in agony.
My friend decided to take his son to the hospital. Hilo Medical Center. Hours.. like all day and into the night.. later a doctor finally decided to image the kid’s brain.. and saw a tumor.
The doctor decided, on his own in the ER without any further investigations or doctor's consultations, the kid needed immediate surgery..
The doctor cut into the kid’s skull, and immediately decided he was out of his depth.. and he closed everything back up without cutting anything.
Anyone with a skull being opened must have a shunt installed to allow the excess fluids that naturally accumulate as part of the healing process to drain..
The doctor put the shunt in backwards.
By morning the kids was in a coma as the fluids accumulated and put excessive pressure on his brain. And the doctor wasn’t akamai enough to realize he installed the shunt wrong.
Simultaneously there was a pediatric brain surgeon’s convention at the Mauna Lani.. and the kids mother went there and stood up in a room full of doctors and begged them for help. A doctor from the mainland approached her and within hours had the kids records, and the next morning he was flown to the mainland where that doctor removed the tumor and fixed him up.
A year later I was summoned to jury duty, and, as a room full of perspective jurors was ushered into the courtroom the judge read an outline of the case. Someone was suing the hospital for negligence. The room erupted in laugher. Immediately the judge became upset and cleared the room of everyone except the lawyers and those that laughed. I was one of them. As the judge asked each in turn why they laughed each recounted a horror story involving malpractice on the part of the hospital. When I was asked about my laugher I recounted the story above, and, of course, the lawyers for the defense asked that I be excused.
When the case was reported in the news, the hospital lost, of course.
If you’re going to the hospital because you need their help.. keep going until you get to Kamuela. Queens ain't the cat's meow, but damn at least they’re a real hospital.