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So here I sit in the hospital

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voodoochylde

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Thanks Dr. Fort! I can't express how grateful my family and I are for your botching a simple out-patient surgery on Thursday and forcing my grandfather into a hospital bed since then.

Thursday morning my grandpa was scheduled for a surgery intended to remove irritated tissue from the interior of his bladder. Dr. Kyle Fort was the guy with the knife and, to this point anyway, had been great with grandpa. Apparently, when a surgery is performed four consecutive times, the doctor gets to punch a hole through his patient's bladder.

So...here I sit...in the hospital...where I've been with my grandfather since Thursday.

Oh! I nearly forgot to express my thanks for also screwing up the repair of your previous screwup, Dr. Fort. Thank you for slitting my grandpa open, removing the entirety of the remaining irritated bladder tissue and mostly stitching him back up.

His drains (designed to remove fluid from the site of the surgery) have been filling with a yellow liquid which looked very much like urine. Incidentally, Dr. Fort failed to completely stitch up the hacked-to-pieces bladder which has allowed urine to drain from my grandpa's bladder into his abdominal cavity. Which....is going to require another damned operation to remedy.

Thanks Dr. Fort. I hope you fucking rot in hell.
 
You have my sympathies. Don't be too hard on your grandpa's doctor. I'm sure he means for the best. Every surgery can't go exactly as planned. It's just a statistical impossibility.
 
Thanks for the kind words everyone. JeffreyLebowski, LOL. Damn good reference.

SlitheryDee brings up a good point. While I am all for suing this guy until he cries (self-admittedly out of pure vengeance) my grandfather doesn't wish to do so. He really likes Dr. Fort and Dr. Fort has done things for him other doctors would have had problems with - thanks to my grandfather's immense pride and sense of personal responsibility. He's considered one of the best doctors of his type in this state and he's only 40 mins away from us.

I don't think I'll have my vengeance. Out of respect for my grandfather, I'm biting my tongue very, very hard. I don't think I've ever been this utterly pissed in my life.
 
Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
You have my sympathies. Don't be too hard on your grandpa's doctor. I'm sure he means for the best. Every surgery can't go exactly as planned. It's just a statistical impossibility.
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Doubtful that screwing up several times is something that is forgivable. The Dr. should have referred them to another specialist or asked for assistance when he was screwing up.
 
Originally posted by: Mxylplyx
Originally posted by: theknight571
Document...document...document... then call a lawyer.
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and become yet another scumbag driving our medical costs up.
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Bad practices is what drives up costs also - if physicians wouldn't get in over their heads, then yada yada yada - what it comes down to is honesty. If a doctor wouldn't f' up - there probably wouldn't be an issue.
 
Originally posted by: voodoochylde
Thanks for the kind words everyone. JeffreyLebowski, LOL. Damn good reference.

SlitheryDee brings up a good point. While I am all for suing this guy until he cries (self-admittedly out of pure vengeance) my grandfather doesn't wish to do so. He really likes Dr. Fort and Dr. Fort has done things for him other doctors would have had problems with - thanks to my grandfather's immense pride and sense of personal responsibility. He's considered one of the best doctors of his type in this state and he's only 40 mins away from us.

I don't think I'll have my vengeance. Out of respect for my grandfather, I'm biting my tongue very, very hard. I don't think I've ever been this utterly pissed in my life.
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He needs a new doctor, at the very least as a second opinion. Surgery is something you don't want to risk having done wrong.
 
My grandfather died because the doctor nicked his bladder with his xacto knife when he was cutting out cancer. He died within 6 weeks because he was leaking urine. I was 19 at the time and didn't know what was happening, and I wasn't told until I was in my late 20s.

The loss of my grandfather at such an early age was a doctors mistake.

My family never sued the doctor.

Rogo
 
Originally posted by: Rogodin2
My grandfather died because the doctor nicked his bladder with his xacto knife when he was cutting out cancer. He died within 6 weeks because he was leaking urine. I was 19 at the time and didn't know what was happening, and I wasn't told until I was in my late 20s.

The loss of my grandfather at such an early age was a doctors mistake.

My family never sued the doctor.

Rogo
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Medical malpractice cases entail months and months (and many times years) of preparation for court, and then you have court dates postponed over and over, and years later when you do finally get to court, are nowhere near a sure win when you get in front of a jury.

Many families understandably do not want to go through the years of bitterness and pain rehashing it over and over again and would rather try to find some peace and move on with their lives. You get no justice or closure or satisfaction from a lawsuit. The doctor will likely not be punished by the AMA unless he is found to be grossly negligent or drunk or something of that sort. If it was a simple mistake, the insurance company pays out and his rates go up a little, and that's all folks. All you get is cash. The family member is still dead, the doctor is still practicing. For many people the years of living out the horrible experience is not worth the payout. For others, it's all about the benjamins.
 
I had a doc screw up my nut surgery. Got a hunk removed (possible cancer), and then got put back together. Well, he fucked up, and I got testicular torsion. I was cut open again, and this time I was put together wrong (w/ the boys sewn in place, nonetheless). Instead of left and right, Im front and back 🙁. Doctor screw ups suck.
 
Originally posted by: Toastedlightly
I had a doc screw up my nut surgery. Got a hunk removed (possible cancer), and then got put back together. Well, he fucked up, and I got testicular torsion. I was cut open again, and this time I was put together wrong (w/ the boys sewn in place, nonetheless). Instead of left and right, Im front and back 🙁. Doctor screw ups suck.
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Ok I'd have to sue for that one :Q
 
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