Considering filing a medical malpractice suit...

[75th]

That one is a tough call too. It's not unusual to bruise a bone or otherwise damage it in almost undetectable ways. While the shafts of the bone are hard (Pick3 in 3... 2... 1...), the ends of bones are more like balls of mush. They can receive blunt trauma and while they feel like a break, don't show up on X-ray. Using a walking boot is pretty standard for someone presenting with ankle pain and a negative X-ray.

Remember too, I don't know shit about your situation. I just have a lot of empathy for doctors because it's a constant struggle over how much testing and treatment to do.

Regardless, I hope she gets better soon.

looloolool

 

[canadianhitman]

Yeah but also remember we don't want every single ankle pain patient to get an MRI. When you start multiplying a $1,800 imaging study across every ankle, you bankrupt health care even faster.

If Obamacare goes through, even cancer patients will wait months for MRIs. People with muscular and skeletal injuries will be lucky to get an MRI at all within a year.

The Obama-loving Dem morons have NO IDEA how bad it's going to get.

 

[miplank]

STFU Ortiz.

good call, rob

 

[mrplunkey]

If Obamacare goes through, even cancer patients will wait months for MRIs. People with muscular and skeletal injuries will be lucky to get an MRI at all within a year.

The Obama-loving Dem morons have NO IDEA how bad it's going to get.

That's the other unspoken uglyness associated with any sort of health care reform. A huge source of cost control has to come from managing utilization.

Setting 75th's situation aside completely, you can rest assured that if Nancy Pelosi bumped her head and had blurred vision, she'd be at Walter Reid Hospital demanding at least $50,000 worth of imaging studies. There wouldn't be any wait-and-see medicine practiced on her.

 

[mrplunkey]

looloolool

That's my best way of describing them!

Even a healthy proximal humerus feels like a small apple encased in an eggshell.

 

[bruce9241]

Sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue sue!!!

 

[ponyfitness]

Yeah but I just figured, the doc did an x-ray, saw nothing, decided to treat it like a fracture anyway, my wife told him the pain got worse, and he just said he was out of ideas and to simply take it easy.

Bad bro material.

Sounds like the typical "I can't be bothered" doctor who should have his license taken away. If you don't want to figure out what the problem is, then say so and refer but don't misdiagnose it because you are out of ideas.

If you have a record of that "out of ideas" crap then I would sue the shit out of him.

 

[stilleto]

gonna be expensive and time consuming. i would definately talk to some lawyers though.

it's not going to be expensive.

a lawyer would work on contingency- meaning they don't get paid til you get paid.
then they take 1/3rd.

minimum time- around 3 years.

you may have to lay out some money for filing fees, but if your lawyer really feels you have a good case and you can't afford that- they will cover it.

 

[mrplunkey]

Sounds like the typical "I can't be bothered" doctor who should have his license taken away. If you don't want to figure out what the problem is, then say so and refer but don't misdiagnose it because you are out of ideas.

If you have a record of that "out of ideas" crap then I would sue the shit out of him.

How is treating her for a non-displaced ankle fracture acting like he can't be bothered? It sounds like he suspected either an undetectable fracture or at least a severe soft tissue injury and treated it.

What's his alternative? MRI's for every turned ankle? What about genetic screens too? Maybe she had an ultra-rare genetic disorder that he should have screened for in the first place. And what about potential bone cancer? Shouldn't he have ordered a PET scan as well?

 

[ponyfitness]

How is treating her for a non-displaced ankle fracture acting like he can't be bothered? It sounds like he suspected either an undetectable fracture or at least a severe soft tissue injury and treated it.

What's his alternative? MRI's for every turned ankle? What about genetic screens too? Maybe she had an ultra-rare genetic disorder that he should have screened for in the first place. And what about potential bone cancer? Shouldn't he have ordered a PET scan as well?

He can't be bothered actually making sure he KNOWS what is going on before he prescribes treatment. To me that's like giving someone water pills because you THINK they have high blood pressure.

From what 75th described he was just lazy and only explored one possible option before giving up and literally saying "I don't know". That's pretty crappy patient care and the guy deserves to at least get called out on it.