Woman Left in CT Scanner As Clinic Closes

[lizzybeth]

I'm probably going to be blasted for this but I think there are too many people that are in the health care field nowadays that are just in it for the money. My daughter is working at a doctor's office (while attending high school) and some of the things she tells me that go on there are ridiculous. The doctor that owns the practice brings her dogs to work with her. I seriously thought that was against health code.
Anyway, the staff was probably so anxious to get home that no one bothered to check the rooms to make sure everyone was out. Unfortunately to them it's just a job. Sounds like it's "just a job" for the doctor too. Sad.

Oh, and about the staff at the jail talking loudly, singing at 3 am and using the "f" word. Sounds like a hospital I stayed at as a child. The nurses were horrible.

 

[angelwngs]

It's not really an ethics problem, sounds like an organizational problem and not checking at the end of the day that everyone is accounted for before you close up.

My daughter got left in a doctor's office once, he never came in the room to see her and she sat and sat. Finally she looked out and everyone was gone.

Stories like these give new meaning to the words "Health Care"! Good Grief... This just makes me furious!

 

[Amraann]

IF it were my cancer patient mother... I'd be PISSED.
Fire the person who left my mother there, and you'd better make my mother VERY financially comfortable... with a public apology that that will never, EVER happen again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think the situation require being financially reembursed to that degree.

 

[T-Rex]

That's just so MEAN and careless!

It seems doctors are charging big bucks for technology--and completely falling down on their end. Who's more apt to give a laboring woman a backrub--a midwife or an OB? And who charges more?

 

[Marthatex]

That's just so MEAN and careless!

It seems doctors are charging big bucks for technology--and completely falling down on their end. Who's more apt to give a laboring woman a backrub--a midwife or an OB? And who charges more?

The article says it was a technician's mistake; and the technician called her the next day to apologize. Still, an upsetting experience no doubt.

Also, when the deputies came, it says they asked HER to unlock the door. I don't get that; how could she have been locked in if the bolt was on the inside of the door?

 

[meowy]

Wonder how long it'll be till she gets a bill for that test?

 

[Texana]

OH, how awful. Years ago I was left in a room waiting for the doctor to show up, I came for an evening hour appt., and the staff screwed up and forgot about me.

I can't imagine being an elderly lady and being left behind! Careless and clueless staff need a giant wake up call. How hard is it to make sure every patient has left the building?

 

[Marthatex]

Really. The technician should be fired, IMO. It would be nice if they did not bill her. Those scans can run into the thousands.

And whoever runs the place should train the staff to be competent. You just can't "forget" a patient.

 

[GlitchWizard]

OH, how awful. Years ago I was left in a room waiting for the doctor to show up, I came for an evening hour appt., and the staff screwed up and forgot about me.

I can't imagine being an elderly lady and being left behind! Careless and clueless staff need a giant wake up call. How hard is it to make sure every patient has left the building?

I always get bored and wander out, stare at people and ask for dumb stuff like a glass of water or tissues. In the back of my mind it was just so that I knew they didn't forget about me - but I never ACTUALLY THOUGHT they would.