My question involves malpractice in the state of: Pennsylvania
My father is currently in the hospital going on for about a month because he currently has a stroke and his kidney levels are high. He originally went to get his back and neck done. He was supposed to stay 3 days max in the hospital according to the Doctor. He is obese, with high blood pressure so we knew the high risks. Him and my sister did sign papers but they never discussed the risks with us the family. When he got the surgery done the doctor's partner came in his room to check on him and he quoted "I would never have done the surgery it had a 10% success rate you were lucky". My dad and us said if we knew that he would've never done the surgery.
Now the surgery. His physician ordered a culture to be done which they never ran. During surgery he woke up. We were told the machine stopped working but we don't know if that happened or not He said they yanked the tubes out. He went straight to the vents. They never informed us the family on what has happened. After surgery he had slur speech and had trouble moving his left side it was obvious he had some kind of stroke. He developed pneumonia and CDF all in one week. We were told later in the week the halo caused the hemorrhage to only have a doctor say the surgeon clipped a vessel during surgery. During the same week they moved him from ICU to the intermediate unit. He had a neck brace on and a cup which we were told by the nurses for him to spit the stuff from the pneumonia. He couldn't move his hands above his shoulders let a lone his waist. It took forever for the nurses to be called. The nurses also tried to make him walk something he barely could do. They put him with a roommate all while he had CDF and pneumonia.
Another experience was he had neck leakage. My sister was in the room when it happened. She called the nurses but it took 2 hrs for them to come because there was a code blue happening. She went to consult a patient advocate but only was denied by the nurse supervisor who insisted he would take of everything. He never got back to us even when we kept trying to reach out. Due to all the antibiotics my father is taking now his kidney levels are high and he might be due for a dialysis. One nurse was actually going to give him an antibiotic which the doctor ordered to stop. Luckily my mother was there to tell her. He had fecal in his toilet for over an hour to only have it cleaned when the nurses switched shifts. Lastly, it took a day for the nurses to treat the lumber rash he developed. This hospital is one big joke.
Is this malpractice? It hurts to see him go through this.
My father is currently in the hospital going on for about a month because he currently has a stroke and his kidney levels are high. He originally went to get his back and neck done. He was supposed to stay 3 days max in the hospital according to the Doctor. He is obese, with high blood pressure so we knew the high risks. Him and my sister did sign papers but they never discussed the risks with us the family. When he got the surgery done the doctor's partner came in his room to check on him and he quoted "I would never have done the surgery it had a 10% success rate you were lucky". My dad and us said if we knew that he would've never done the surgery.
Now the surgery. His physician ordered a culture to be done which they never ran. During surgery he woke up. We were told the machine stopped working but we don't know if that happened or not He said they yanked the tubes out. He went straight to the vents. They never informed us the family on what has happened. After surgery he had slur speech and had trouble moving his left side it was obvious he had some kind of stroke. He developed pneumonia and CDF all in one week. We were told later in the week the halo caused the hemorrhage to only have a doctor say the surgeon clipped a vessel during surgery. During the same week they moved him from ICU to the intermediate unit. He had a neck brace on and a cup which we were told by the nurses for him to spit the stuff from the pneumonia. He couldn't move his hands above his shoulders let a lone his waist. It took forever for the nurses to be called. The nurses also tried to make him walk something he barely could do. They put him with a roommate all while he had CDF and pneumonia.
Another experience was he had neck leakage. My sister was in the room when it happened. She called the nurses but it took 2 hrs for them to come because there was a code blue happening. She went to consult a patient advocate but only was denied by the nurse supervisor who insisted he would take of everything. He never got back to us even when we kept trying to reach out. Due to all the antibiotics my father is taking now his kidney levels are high and he might be due for a dialysis. One nurse was actually going to give him an antibiotic which the doctor ordered to stop. Luckily my mother was there to tell her. He had fecal in his toilet for over an hour to only have it cleaned when the nurses switched shifts. Lastly, it took a day for the nurses to treat the lumber rash he developed. This hospital is one big joke.
Is this malpractice? It hurts to see him go through this.
Medical Malpractice: High Risk Surgery Without Informed Consent
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