American health care: a case in point.

[theweaselking]

Healthy Florida woman goes into hospital to deliver baby. Delivers baby, suffers unknown complications, is flown to another hospital, anaesthetised, and wakes up a quadruple amputee.

The hospital *will not tell her what happened*. They say that they amputated her limbs because she had a streptococcus infection, but *will not* explain how she got it, when it was diagnosed, how they decided to amputate, why she was not consulted, and they *will not* provide her with information about her diagnosis, telling her that if she wants to know anything, she should sue.

If you're a patient of Orlando Regional Healthcare Systems, you should run, not walk, to a first-world country, while you still can.

Comments

[fearmeforiampink]

When I first looked at the link to the story, I saw WTF rather than WFT, cause it does seem a "WTF?!?" bit of news.

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Do not get me wrong. Your sister and her husband strike me as cool. Your nephew even gets past some of my profound desire to avoid small children as if they were alien facehuggers.

But visiting them is rapidly hitting the "absolutely right out unless I get a written guarantee from God on high that neither of us will suffer injury or illness while Down There" stage.

[jirel.livejournal.com]

HEY unless I miss my guess, weasleking lives down here (as do I) don't burn the entire state! And don't burn all the doctors either - I happen to have a really, really great rheumatologist. Just go after some of the government people and the lawyers (and whoever was careless enough to cause the streptococcus infection.)

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

so messed up

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You do miss your guess, in that case. I'm a Canadian. I live in Ottawa.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

"telling her that if she wants to know anything, she should sue."

Or to rephrase a little: "We did something stupid and our lawyers tell us that it's better for us if you have to drag it out of us in court."