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What is the name of your state? MI
My friend "Janis" goes alone to the local ER/clinic, she's new in town just moved in and has no primary physician at this time. She suffers from chronic back pain, disk problems and such. After she gets all moved in into her new home her pain gets worse. I convince her to go to the local ER. She gets treated like a "druggy", she has a couple of tattoo's, eyebrow and nose pierced. But all in all not a person who would appear as a "druggy" to me. Anyway, "Dr. Nastypants" gives her Flexeril, tells her the pain is mostly in her head and she'll be ok someday when she gets right upstairs and sends her on her way. "BTW nice tattoos, why would you do that to your body?" All she really wanted was to see if she had hurt herself while moving she tries not to take pain meds mostly because she has a bad reaction to aspirin and told "Dr. Nastypant's" Nuse that information upon being asessed. No tests were done on her back but thats really not all that unusual for this or any ER. Two days later a friend of ours "Donna" tries to get "Janis" to go back to the ER because she was not only in pain but now half of her body was going numb, it was quite scary. So they go together "Janis" and "Donna" to the ER I drop them off and the hospital and runs some errands. Now I have to say that "Donna" probably wasn't the best person to send along with "Janis" for she has a shady history of using drugs, but only those prescribed to her, she found an idiot Dr. that will write scripts for anything you ask for. Into the Clinic/ER; "Donna" is asked to wait outside. Newer, younger, "Dr. Feelgood" comes along and states diagnosis of sciatica, and brings out the script pad. "Dr. Feelgood" orders a 60mg Toradol IM injection followed by a 10mg Decadron IM injection, then writes for Vicodin 500mg 2 tabs q 4 hrs, Prednisone, tapering dose, and she still has the script for flexeril that she hasn't filled yet. "Dr. Feelgood" shoots her up, sends her on her way. I come back to pick them up and she's flat out stoned. I asked her whats up, she tells me what happend and starts to feel sick. I get her home, for two days she's completely wasted, she's trying to take her pills like the bottles say but can't even make her own coffee. Three days later she gets up late, has to hurry to get her kid on the bus she's so unsteady she falls right on her kid in his bed. The kids ok, but she's wrecked, she can't think, she's freakin out a little bit, she thinks she fell because her side went numb and her meds aren't working for her. It's pill time again, right after the kid went to school, so she opens her purse, grabs a plastic baggy with pills in it (2 Soma, 1 Ativan) (not the pills she's supposed to take)and takes em. 10 min later someones calling an ambulance for her, she can't stop crying, she can't walk, she can't talk, starts to drool a little. Off to the hospital, they kept her in ICU for observation but only had to treat her for a UTI, they did nothing for the "overdose", probably couldn't do anything but watch her anyway. Point is, it wasn't as bad as some overdoses, yet they kept her overnight to keep an eye on her which I'm very happy about. Thing is, "Janis" has no recollection of these events, she's lost like 5 days of memory. She thinks she's had those pills in the pocket of her purse for about six months, says she knew they were in there, a friend gave em too her long ago but she didn't want to take them because pills make her sick. Now.. I'm not naive nor am I stupid and I do believe what she is telling me. So benefit of the doubt here please.. We called 911 for her, told them she had back pain needs to go to the hospital, can't move legs that well. EMT's took her to the hospital,when they got out they called dispatch to report, while on the phone EMT tells dispatch that call was for overdose. Dispatch supervisor on duty happens to be married to "Cheif Blowhard", "Officer Woody's" boss. Mrs."Cheif Blowhard" calls her hubby and tells him the news about the overdose. Meanwhile, back at the ER "Dr. Nastypants" was in this really didn't help as "Officer Woody" shows up later to investigate the "overdose". "Dr. Nastypants" states to "Officer Woody" he thinks she sells or trades her drugs for other drugs. I can imagine this is a safe assumption considering the situation, but it's not exactly true, nor is "Dr.Nastypants" a investigator. So, "Officer Woody" gets "Janis" to sign a medical record release form, he fills it out, the nurse takes it to her, and she signs it. Right after she signs it she asks "what time is it", "Officer Woody" replies 10:40, "Janis" freaks out, "I have to get home to put my kids to bed... " Officer Woody" replies, it's 10:40 in the morning your kids are still at school.. Then continues to question her. This is a little past 2 hours after she was taken into the hospital. "Officer Woddy" interviews her again in the hospital the next morning, she tells him I don't remember what happened. "Officer Woody" then interviews her ex husband, her two daughters at their school, her ex boyfriend, her friends an god knows who else.. So far he's come up empty handed because you see "janis" has no history of drug usage prescribed or not. My question is do you think he can arrest her for this "overdose". Any malpractice on the part of the hospital, mixing meds, alleries? I have a problem with this "overdose" because she was so screwed up from the moment she got those injections until days after the "overdose" and breach of confidentiality by EMT's, hospital etc... I appreciate all views. Thanks so much... Tilly
My friend "Janis" goes alone to the local ER/clinic, she's new in town just moved in and has no primary physician at this time. She suffers from chronic back pain, disk problems and such. After she gets all moved in into her new home her pain gets worse. I convince her to go to the local ER. She gets treated like a "druggy", she has a couple of tattoo's, eyebrow and nose pierced. But all in all not a person who would appear as a "druggy" to me. Anyway, "Dr. Nastypants" gives her Flexeril, tells her the pain is mostly in her head and she'll be ok someday when she gets right upstairs and sends her on her way. "BTW nice tattoos, why would you do that to your body?" All she really wanted was to see if she had hurt herself while moving she tries not to take pain meds mostly because she has a bad reaction to aspirin and told "Dr. Nastypant's" Nuse that information upon being asessed. No tests were done on her back but thats really not all that unusual for this or any ER. Two days later a friend of ours "Donna" tries to get "Janis" to go back to the ER because she was not only in pain but now half of her body was going numb, it was quite scary. So they go together "Janis" and "Donna" to the ER I drop them off and the hospital and runs some errands. Now I have to say that "Donna" probably wasn't the best person to send along with "Janis" for she has a shady history of using drugs, but only those prescribed to her, she found an idiot Dr. that will write scripts for anything you ask for. Into the Clinic/ER; "Donna" is asked to wait outside. Newer, younger, "Dr. Feelgood" comes along and states diagnosis of sciatica, and brings out the script pad. "Dr. Feelgood" orders a 60mg Toradol IM injection followed by a 10mg Decadron IM injection, then writes for Vicodin 500mg 2 tabs q 4 hrs, Prednisone, tapering dose, and she still has the script for flexeril that she hasn't filled yet. "Dr. Feelgood" shoots her up, sends her on her way. I come back to pick them up and she's flat out stoned. I asked her whats up, she tells me what happend and starts to feel sick. I get her home, for two days she's completely wasted, she's trying to take her pills like the bottles say but can't even make her own coffee. Three days later she gets up late, has to hurry to get her kid on the bus she's so unsteady she falls right on her kid in his bed. The kids ok, but she's wrecked, she can't think, she's freakin out a little bit, she thinks she fell because her side went numb and her meds aren't working for her. It's pill time again, right after the kid went to school, so she opens her purse, grabs a plastic baggy with pills in it (2 Soma, 1 Ativan) (not the pills she's supposed to take)and takes em. 10 min later someones calling an ambulance for her, she can't stop crying, she can't walk, she can't talk, starts to drool a little. Off to the hospital, they kept her in ICU for observation but only had to treat her for a UTI, they did nothing for the "overdose", probably couldn't do anything but watch her anyway. Point is, it wasn't as bad as some overdoses, yet they kept her overnight to keep an eye on her which I'm very happy about. Thing is, "Janis" has no recollection of these events, she's lost like 5 days of memory. She thinks she's had those pills in the pocket of her purse for about six months, says she knew they were in there, a friend gave em too her long ago but she didn't want to take them because pills make her sick. Now.. I'm not naive nor am I stupid and I do believe what she is telling me. So benefit of the doubt here please.. We called 911 for her, told them she had back pain needs to go to the hospital, can't move legs that well. EMT's took her to the hospital,when they got out they called dispatch to report, while on the phone EMT tells dispatch that call was for overdose. Dispatch supervisor on duty happens to be married to "Cheif Blowhard", "Officer Woody's" boss. Mrs."Cheif Blowhard" calls her hubby and tells him the news about the overdose. Meanwhile, back at the ER "Dr. Nastypants" was in this really didn't help as "Officer Woody" shows up later to investigate the "overdose". "Dr. Nastypants" states to "Officer Woody" he thinks she sells or trades her drugs for other drugs. I can imagine this is a safe assumption considering the situation, but it's not exactly true, nor is "Dr.Nastypants" a investigator. So, "Officer Woody" gets "Janis" to sign a medical record release form, he fills it out, the nurse takes it to her, and she signs it. Right after she signs it she asks "what time is it", "Officer Woody" replies 10:40, "Janis" freaks out, "I have to get home to put my kids to bed... " Officer Woody" replies, it's 10:40 in the morning your kids are still at school.. Then continues to question her. This is a little past 2 hours after she was taken into the hospital. "Officer Woddy" interviews her again in the hospital the next morning, she tells him I don't remember what happened. "Officer Woody" then interviews her ex husband, her two daughters at their school, her ex boyfriend, her friends an god knows who else.. So far he's come up empty handed because you see "janis" has no history of drug usage prescribed or not. My question is do you think he can arrest her for this "overdose". Any malpractice on the part of the hospital, mixing meds, alleries? I have a problem with this "overdose" because she was so screwed up from the moment she got those injections until days after the "overdose" and breach of confidentiality by EMT's, hospital etc... I appreciate all views. Thanks so much... Tilly