A while back I ran into my neighbor's wife on Tinder (we did not match) but long story short I saw her profile and it said that she was looking for large well endowed black men and that she was in an open marriage... I didn't think much of it, was like thats their kink w/e. FWIW too it was a Tinder verified photo.
Recently though she had a big post on FB for donating money to HIV research, I looked at the comments and there she was telling everyone that she got HIV from a medical error. I just found this super hard to believe, because this is not the 80s anymore and if she did she would get a FAT malpractice suit.
A neighbor of ours that I am friends with was like can you believe what happened to so and so, you can't trust doctors at all (he was already untrusting of doctors). I was like dude, I don't think doctors did this. And I told him what I saw on Tinder.. I told him not to tell anyone because I don't want to speculate. Well he told his wife, and his wife told EVERYONE.
And now this all came back to me, and she is furious. Telling people that I am spreading lies about her. Her husband hasn't said anything.
What are some of the funniest typos and wrong dictations you have ever read in the patient’s charts? My favorite is “Many Asians at the bedside” dictaphone was HOH and this is what was transcribed for “Medications at the bedside”. 😂
This is my second time getting a medical. I had previously received a second class in 2018. The examiner told me he would mark it as an error, but that I would have to explain it every time. Is there not a way to have this corrected? As an MEI going into the airlines, this might be an issue?
There have been so many, through the show's seasons! A But, I will discuss the new season 4 episodes. As a former hospital nurse, who has worked mainly Med/Surg, but also Orthopedics & Cardiac, I've been gobsmacked by obvious errors. Here are just a FEW-
Beth wouldn't have been given a Hysterectomy as a means to sterilization. this is a highly invasive surgical procedure which requires more downtime & healing, it's probably the MOST costly sterilization procedure (not forgetting the show is positing an abortion is ONLY given WITH sterilization). Tubal ligation, in comparison, is the easiest, quickest, cheapest, with less downtime & recovery needed. Given the fact it was a Clinic specifically for Native American women, I have sincere doubts they would offer the MOST expensive procedure, a Hysterectomy.
NO hospital staff member would have allowed Jimmy to walk the hospital hallways in a back opening gown, exposing himself- I get it, it was their humorous moment. BUT, it doesn't happen, as staff, we can actually get written up for not preventing the public exposure of a patient. Instead, we take a 2nd hospital gown, & have them wear it back-to-front, so it opens in the front, they're wearing it like a bathrobe over the 1st gown.
And then there's the whole Jimmy condition & treatment issue- Orthopedic/Spinal surgeons, nurses, & physical therapists across the US are appalled, or laughing their heads off!
How can we reduce medical errors?
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Engaging patients in safety
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Encouraging a high reliability culture
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Promoting interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Monitoring vulnerable population
Hey all,
My medical visit was incorrectly filed by the medical office as out of network instead of in-network. This lead to a medical bill. Once I caught this error I called my insurance company and did a three way call with the medical office to fix this. They acknowledged the error, fixed the bill, and I was no longer held under obligation to pay this bill because the insurance would cover.
However, the medical bill was still sent to collections and is now reporting as a collections on my credit report.
This hurts my credit score and I am not particularly happy because I asked them to send me in writing that they would fix the credit report error but they have not.
Can someone lay out the step by step ways I can dispute this in my favor? Should I dispute from creditkarma? Or do a paper letter?
Thanks for your help.
My son was born over 2 years ago and there has been an ongoing battle of what we owe the hospital. Lots of calls with the hospital and insurance companies about what is the correct amount. Basically my wife was insured through her employer and I was insured through mine. I have Blue Cross she had Cigna at the time. Anyways we've constantly been checking in with the hospital because they keep sending a final notice for about $3,000. A few weeks ago we were told it was put on hold so the insurance companies could figure it out.
My wife called the hospital today to inquire about the status and the hospital said they put us into collections last Friday. We have not received an official letter in the mail yet. She just got off the phone with Cigna saying they don't even see a claim and that realistically we would only owe $1800. Additionally the fact that I put my son on Blue Cross after he was born is part of the issue. There's a dispute to who owes what.
My wife is freaking out, we both have excellent credit. I keep looking on the web and seeing conflicting things. I'm reading about a 180 day grace period before it effects credit. I'm also reading that only if the insurance pays will it be removed. I can easily pay the $3,000 if it comes to it but I'm reading it might still hurt my credit.
What are my options?
In 2018, I had a nearly fatal GI bleed that required significant internal surgery to correct. Following the surgery I was on TPN for 3-4 days (although I was allowed to drink like the next day). Once I was allowed mush and eventually solid foods and in a normal room I noticed that whenever the food cart would come by, I would be told my food was "on another cart" and wouldn't be fed until my blood sugars were checked. I was advised this was due to people on TPN having a nasty habit of having huge blood sugar spikes and going into DKA. While on TPN, my fasting blood sugar was almost always 107. I could even make that guess and the nurse testing would be surprised I was correct. "You must have a really good pancreas.", exclaimed another nurse.
Once I was off of the TPN, the sugar checks continued, this time with varying levels between 94 and 102. I once refused a finger prick to see what happened and they just didn't feed me. At no time did an endocrinologist see me, nor was I told I was diagnosed as diabetic. My first hint of trouble is when they went to check my sugars before my follow up gastroscopy. I asked why and the nurse said: "Because you're an insulin dependent diabetic. Duh."
As the age of 40 looms, I am beginning to realize corrective lenses are in my future, but an ophthalmologist I tried to make an appointment with refused to see me when she learned I did not see an endocrinologist and was not managing my apparently non-existent diabetes. How do I find out if my medical records now proclaim me to be a diabetic and how do I get them corrected if they are in error?
The only things that beat it are heart disease and cancer
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us
Hello I'm not 100% sure this fits here but some co-workers have said I should approach my actual HR with this.
Basically I work at a job where you work in groups of two during the day and stay in close proximity in a vehicle among other places. I worked with an individual twice in a week where I found out later they were sick, disclosed it to our boss and our boss allowed them to come to work anyway.
Our job has a check-in system since the pandemic you fill out every morning on a computer/phone that asks if you are sick along with other questions and at the end explicitly says if you are sick to stay home. If you respond yes that you are sick in any way it will tell you to not enter any business premises/vehicle and tell your boss so you can be sent home.
This was the only person I was in close proximity with (straight home daily) and I didn't find out about their illness until the second time we teamed up where my boss texted me to tell me this employee was sick and would need to go home early, not immediately to still do the days work THEN send them home.
I ended up catching the 19 bad and have since had hospital stays and expenses in medication and doctors visits with a long positive/recovery time.
My coworkers said my boss could have exposed me knowingly letting a sick person spend all day close to me just to have coverage. When I first took off work hr called me for contact tracing and I told them the story and they wanted screenshots of all the texts from my boss which I sent.
So I'm asking if my co-workers have the right idea, and could I get hr/my company to cover my expenses?
Thank you for your time!
One thing that has always stuck with the core memory was freshman year of high school. They had the Army recruiters come in and interrupt class to give a presentation of why we should consider the Army in 4 years.
"If you ever get injured, the VA will always be there for you."
Fast forward to reality, that did not pan out at all, and the VA health care system has been the source of multiple traumas.
But, we also have Tricare, the unspoken of health care that you also receive. Two insurances? Awesome.
(Actually three because you are penalized for being injured and forced to buy Medicare A&B which turns the whole thing into Tricare For Life, but does it really do anything beside cost hundreds of extra dollars a month? No. Well, you can see specialist without a referral, which is a perk. But in the medical climate we are in now, all specialist require a referral from the GP regardless of insurance company position).
So here is the situation. We once had nurse care management for our complex case, way back before we knew about DID, back when it was just PTSD/TBI and all our physical injuries.
Eventually, that stopped being a thing we had. We tried several times to reinstate it, but it never happened.
The VA had a similar program we also tried and were denied for. (Real life story is the VA sent a veteran to get an x-ray of his leg to prove something on a compensation claim. What they wanted to prove, was that he had no leg, because it was lost in an IED. Something you can confirm without an x-ray, but he had to get an x-ray to prove he had no leg. Also, the military should have had a record of the whole "lost a leg while working," thing).
A few months back someone in the system got the motivation to restart the process.
Called and had a Tricare rep who seemed really interested in helping. Gave us her personal workline and everything incase anything went wrong.
Time went by and we realized nothing had happened. So we call the rep. No answer and a full mailbox, the personal greeting with her voice replaced by the recital of the phone number. So we call the main nurse care management hotline for Tricare.
Goes to a waiting line. Cool. Then we hit, "everyone is busy, so leave a message, or hang up." We arrive at the message? "Mailbox is full, goodbye"
That is it, that is the circle of life for the nurse care management phone line, you can't access a human.
And where does that leave us? Still having zero of our conditions managed, despite
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