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Trouble "negotiating" with-P's assisted living place to pay for her IV antibiotics--sue?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 571177" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Ok. I'm going to have to play a little bit of devil's advocate here since I've spent a lot of time working in such places. But first I have a question........... Is Dr. L employed by the facility or is he your aunt's private physician? </p><p></p><p>Now here is the devil's advocate part:</p><p></p><p>1. A cat bite can get nasty fast, even WITH proper treatment, in a young person......in the elderly you can blink and just a common scratch can get nasty, so imagine what a cat bite can do. </p><p></p><p>2. If she is stating the recorded nurses notes properly (and I'm sure she is because to do otherwise would be just plain stupid), then treatment <strong>was</strong> reasonable and per doctor's orders. Facility staff <strong>cannot</strong> issue medications without a doctor's direct order to do so. And trust me, if a doctor doesn't think he needs to it can often take moving heaven and earth to get him to change his mind, and often he won't. Regardless, no order means staff's hands are tied. </p><p></p><p>If anyone is to "blame" it would be the doctor, not the facility. And even had he ordered oral antibiotics, there is no guarantee that the infection would not have continued to fester and still had the same result. It would be next to impossible to prove that had she received oral antibiotics she would not have had the same result. Perhaps with a different sort of injury, but not with a cat bite, and not with your aunts advanced age. </p><p></p><p>Personally, I don't see a reason to sue. I think it would be a costly dead end. You might, however, want to nail the doctor down as to why he didn't come and inspect the wound personally to assess whether or not ordered treatment was working or if additional treatment was required. Based on his answer, you might want to seek out a new doctor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 571177, member: 84"] Ok. I'm going to have to play a little bit of devil's advocate here since I've spent a lot of time working in such places. But first I have a question........... Is Dr. L employed by the facility or is he your aunt's private physician? Now here is the devil's advocate part: 1. A cat bite can get nasty fast, even WITH proper treatment, in a young person......in the elderly you can blink and just a common scratch can get nasty, so imagine what a cat bite can do. 2. If she is stating the recorded nurses notes properly (and I'm sure she is because to do otherwise would be just plain stupid), then treatment [B]was[/B] reasonable and per doctor's orders. Facility staff [B]cannot[/B] issue medications without a doctor's direct order to do so. And trust me, if a doctor doesn't think he needs to it can often take moving heaven and earth to get him to change his mind, and often he won't. Regardless, no order means staff's hands are tied. If anyone is to "blame" it would be the doctor, not the facility. And even had he ordered oral antibiotics, there is no guarantee that the infection would not have continued to fester and still had the same result. It would be next to impossible to prove that had she received oral antibiotics she would not have had the same result. Perhaps with a different sort of injury, but not with a cat bite, and not with your aunts advanced age. Personally, I don't see a reason to sue. I think it would be a costly dead end. You might, however, want to nail the doctor down as to why he didn't come and inspect the wound personally to assess whether or not ordered treatment was working or if additional treatment was required. Based on his answer, you might want to seek out a new doctor. [/QUOTE]
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