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| Thread ID: 150783 | 2022-07-11 07:37:00 | Hospital goes DIY | B.M. (505) | PC World Chat |
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| 1487334 | 2022-07-19 03:49:00 | he advises me that they think the Septicaemia came from a biopsy they had taken” So.....their fault, Filthy instruments? Or gloves? |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1487335 | 2022-07-19 04:19:00 | B.M. I wonder if you should go down the road of applying to ACC just in case of further problems requiring medical intervention. Speak to your wife's doctor. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1487336 | 2022-07-19 22:24:00 | B.M. I wonder if you should go down the road of applying to ACC just in case of further problems requiring medical intervention. Speak to your wife's doctor. Thanks Bryan, good point. :thumbs: Now this. Wife has been on a drug called Metoprolol Succinate (also known as Betaloc CR controlled release) for years now and yesterday a nurse came to administer her drugs and declares you can’t crush it and feed it direct into the stomach. Well, protests the Wife, that’s what they have been doing since last August when Ramsay Hunt Syndrome paralysed my swallowing. The Nurse responds that if you read the packet you will see it is a controlled release drug and comes with a WARNING “Swallow whole, do not crush or chew”! So off goes the Nurse and comes back with a Doctor. The Doctor shares her concern and advises she will seek further advice from the Pharmacist. The advice from the Pharmacist must have favoured the Nurse because the Metoprolol has been replaced. Which raises the question of how the hell could this mistake go unnoticed for 10 Months, and what organs have been damaged. You don’t happen to be a Clairvoyant do you Bryan? :) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1487337 | 2022-07-19 22:52:00 | No not a clairvoyant but in my passed life I was involved in Insurance claims including Workers Compo in the old days and then ACC thereafter. If you have no luck with your Doctor in lodging an ACC claim, consult with your Solicitor but get something into the ACC system before they tell you are out of time with your lodgement. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1487338 | 2022-07-20 03:24:00 | Which raises the question of how the hell could this mistake go unnoticed for 10 Months, and what organs have been damaged. ) I could give you tons of stories like that. How about this more minor one:| Husband on certain BP pill. They also took bloods all the time, for ages. 5 different doctors and several years later, he sees a locum. Next thing nurse rings in a panic, potassium, creatinine etc all bad, must change dirt immediately, stage 1 kidney failure. Eliminate what I ask? Oh every single thing in the vege garden for starters. Now he had also been having this intermittent swelling problem, tongue, fact, throat. Oh an allergy docs had said, utterly uninterested. So I am thinking, why? He has a low sugar problem not high. I went and looked up his pills, not on Medsafe - which doesn't mention any of this.. And discovered this pill can cause the allergy in some and in big red letters STOP taking it, life threatening emergency. And also....it affects kidneys, the potassium etc... Tell new doc this, he dismissed me, oh he's been on it for ages he says, and before I could lose my temper, checks notes. Oh he says. Changes pill. A few months later bloods all back to normal. Allergy gone never to return. Because they don't bother looking. They hand out whatever is the common Pharmac trendy, they don't even read bloods half the time. They think just because all pills have side effects, so what. From then on I always did my own research and told them, we prefer the least nasty stuff, we prefer the minimum, not just another pill to "fix" issues with first pill and so on. Which they did to another friend of mine and 12 pills later...a trip to hospital...but that's another story. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1487339 | 2022-07-22 01:25:00 | Most doctors, nowadays (not all of them, of course), are only interested in $$$ ... especially those highly 'qualified' specialists ... sigh, sigh... | bk T (215) | ||
| 1487340 | 2022-07-26 01:19:00 | Don't know what happened but could a Moderator delete the above post #27 and I'll start again. | B.M. (505) | ||
| 1487341 | 2022-07-26 01:36:00 | Gotta love those " take 1/2 or 1/4 of tablets" Why not just give a lower dosage. Some I used to be on were once, take 1 1/2 Tablet -------- Yeah chasing them around the bench. Now increased to Two so a lot easier. You really have to wonder about some services or more to the point lack of. :( |
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