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I am not a medical malpractice lawyer, but I worked at a firm that handled medical malpractice cases. The stories I heard were awful. I cannot go into great detail, because when cases settle there are pretty much always confidentiality agreements. However, I can tell you broadly some of the things I have seen.Failure to properly identify and treat infection leading to loss of hands, a portion of arms, feet, a portion of legs.Failure to treat someone because no one spoke Spanish and they did not provide their phone translation service. Left a person having a heart attack on a gurney in the hallway to die. Took hours of his wife begging for help and no one responding.Elderly people with fall risk falling because of a failure to assess them properly, put up bed railings, etc. Numerous cases of people falling and dying.Stroke leading to brain injury, leading to the destruction of a person’s life. A test showed that the person had issues with the dose of blood thinner. Office left a voice mail to call back after the weekend instead of getting the person to the hospital for treatment. Wouldn’t have had a stroke if they had followed basic medical procedures in the case.Birth injuries due to failure to properly monitor, leading to life long problems for the baby.Death of fetus because the doctor failed to identify the location of the uterus properly. Inserted something into the uterus during a procedure on a different part of the body. Caused miscarriage.Don’t even get me started on the nursing home abuse cases.

I’m from a legal background but ended up working in health and social care first a manager and then in compliance. Have worked with a number of care homes that were investigated and some prosecuted for accidents and injuries resulting in fatalities.Elderly residents with dementia are particularly high risk and need care homes and staff to really try and preempt absolutely everything no matter how absurd or unlikely.A few have died after chewing denture cleaning tablets they thought were mints, another drank dishwasher fluid and another drank half a jug full of industrial degreaser.Falls,scalds/ drowning incidents, medication errors and incorrectly or improperly fitted bed rails, hoists. slings and chairs.I carry out all the risk assessment and safety stuff, advise and give recommendation and provide training to staff. Surprising how many flat out don’t believe half the cases I tell them about until I got print off the deets and let them have a copy.This story is the most recent one I was sent though via safety alerts. Three days ago it happened :(Grandmother died after latex glove became wedged in throat, inquest told

Yes you would have to prove they are responsible if you go down that route I'm sorry for your lost.I understand putting bed rails up is open to abuse confining a person to the bed.Medical staff need to use common sense here .If a person has the potential to have a serious accident especially taking medication that sedate patients or whatever health condition the person has .The medical staff need to assess what the needs are and if bed rails would be safer or not?This boils down to quality of basic care .They are rushed off their feet .Things get over looked forgetting to make sure the alarm is switch on and close to patients bed so they can press if need help.Assessment should be made and written up keep rails up at all times as risk to falling out of bed .Again I'm sorry because if this is the case it could have been avoided.I think in hospitals you need more care assistances just for basic needs drinking ,eating there's never enough even if you had someone sitting with patients all the time would be reassuring but they are left alone sometimes and yes I have seen bed rails down that should be up had to call a member of staff and yes if you are Fragile and fall out of bed you could die .