Q: Can you file negligence when a hospital sends a pt home then they are rehospitalized requiring emergency surgery?
My husband was seen in the ER over New Years Eve. He was having severe chest and stomach pain. He is a type 2 diabetic. His sugars were in the high 700 range, he was given medicine for his chest and stomach pain and given insulin and an iv solution for his sugars. They never did an xray or ultrasound to see what may have caused his pain. He was released with his sugars in the mid 400 range given a script for pain and an antibiotic. I had to take him to another hospital not even 24hrs later, where they had to give him insulin and did an ultrasound to discover he had a bowel obstruction. He was rushed into surgery to remove the obstruction, where they had to remove 6imches of his small intestine along with scar tissue.
A:
Medical malpractice means that a doctor violated the standard of care. A bad outcome is not enough. Another doctor would be needed to evaluate what the doctors did.
Further, Due to the nature of medical malpractice cases, the extent of your injuries may effect the viability of your case.
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