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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

By-pass the floor and go straight to administration.  Tell them that you are 
fully aware of how the Medicare system works and that if they don't 
straighten up and give your mother the appropriate care you will be making a 
demand for a FULL (important word to use) Medicare review of the WHOLE 
hospital and its care of patients.  Further, you want to know when the next 
QA Committee (Quality Assurance) meeting is and that you demand to be put on 
the agenda.

Inform the head of the medical staff, they should have a medical director, 
that you will be filing a complaint with the state medical board if care 
does not improve immediately.

And, you are correct about clots, etc.  Further, every P & P (policy and 
procedure manual and all hospitals have them) that I've ever seen calls for 
*immediate* treatment of a compound fracture!  That doesn't mean wait two 
days, that means getting an orth surgeon called in to do emergency surgery! 
This is particularly important in the elder when blood flow is a problem and 
the longer you wait the more likely you are to further compromise their 
circulation.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>


> Since the list is slow this morning, it's time for a rant. My mother, 92
> years old, fell on Sunday morning and broke her arm. I saw the xray in the
> ER, and it's a bad break, jagged, and open, with a large chunk of bone
> detached and off to the side.
>
> She was admitted to the hospital from the ER Sunday afternoon, and they 
> have
> done NOTHING for her yet. I watched the nursed change her sheets and roll
> her over on the broken arm...my mother was screaming in pain, and they 
> just
> say "I know it hurts, but we have to get this sheet out from under you".
> They wouldn't feed her in case the specialist wanted to rush her to 
> surgery.
> As far as I know, she's had one or two meals since breakfast on Sunday. 
> The
> specialist didn't even look at her until Monday evening, and they didn't
> schedule surgery until 3:00 today. She could starve by then.
>
> Isn't there a serious danger of a clot causing embolisms or aneurisms with
> an open break? She's been trapped in bed since Sunday morning, so her poor
> circulation is further challenged.  Is that any way to treat an old lady?
> Why I hate doctors and hospitals. I call/show up and throw a hissy fit for
> them to do something for her, but no one pays attention to me...I'm just
> "that crazy daughter".
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
>
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