Hospital denies treatment to 3 year old for a rattlesnake bite. Child dies.

Yea, how the fuck does a 3 year old not need anti venom?

Screw that ... more than half the children in this country aren’t even American anymore.

oh just wait hospitals is where most of us will die....

shit

This is why your country is going to hell, this right here your hatred, god abandoned america because of this...

I've always had the impression that doctors know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be completely sure they're treating you properly. They'll throw medications at you that have more side effects than the condition you're trying to treat. If the medication doesn't kill you or you don't know complications from it, you're lucky. It's a sick, twisted system of negligence and incompetence. Doctors will throw medications at you, hoping one sticks and fixes your problem.
The truth is, our medical system is fly by night, hope for the best, caution to the wind--snake oil.

In this case, they withheld treatment that could've saved this child's life. I smell a lawsuit.

Yeah I was watching a show one time and a guy had to pay like 180k for being treated for a snake bite.

the best treatment for most diseases as You get old is to lose fucking weight and stay active.

I almost lost my son because I didn't take him to a Children's hospital first.

They informed me that kids present differently than adults, and most docs are not trained for that.

CHACHING!

The sound of a massive high paying lawsuit.

Is it expensive or does it cost a lot? There's a difference.

My local hospital ER is nicknames the Graveyard.

Our US medical system is broken.

These meds are expensive only because the manufacturers can squeeze money from the medical industry and insurance.

The cost to make rattlesnake anti-venom probably cost about $10.

Doctors, A paid for privilege does not mean skill or moral responsibility.
Medical cost are at an insane level.
Most doctors are just commissioned referral agents for specialists.
They put doctors on pedestals so you can feel better being ripped off by them.

Being a good automotive mechanic takes more skill and study than buying a doctor title.

Snoring = airway problem and you always investigate airway problems. It is the first part of the triage assessment. That hospital is going to get sued and the staff working that case will probably lose their licenses. If a doctor is not doing what they should the nurse is supposed to advocate for their patients. That is literally the most important part of a nurses job. This was a total failure of the entire staff in that ED. It will be even worse if the family didn’t have insurance and the hospital was trying to avoid pricey care to save money.

Doctors kill more people than guns, it would be many times more if nurses did did stop most of the doctors mistakes.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Nothing is free you idiot.

On top of that, they probably had unqualified women and minorities as nurses and doctors to fill in quotas.

Serious question, do you use the electrical charge as 1st aid treatment for the snake bite or as a weapon to use against the snake?

Reason asking is years ago about early eighties I remember reading an article in the Outdoor Life magazine about a Texan veterinarian who was using the electrical charge from a modified stun gun to treat his snake bitten dogs. The idea is to use high voltage/low current change the electrical polarity of the Venom before it has time to bind to and damage tissue. In the article he detailed how to make a makeshift device using jumper cables and the starter coil (cash for clunkers cars) or modify the stun gun prongs to be able to be useful to get in between the fingers of a small hand.

I haven’t heard of any widespread use of this technique outside of that article. It is shameful if something as simple as using an electrical charge could have saved this child from going through all that suffering.

THIS !

That hospital is SELLING the poor child’s organs

TRACK and he MONEY FLOWS !

God DAMN them to Hell !

Please God surround that tiny soul with your comforting angels and her parents too.

They deserve to be sued for $50 million or more, and I would.

I'm sure they'll count it as a covid death, so it's all good....

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rattle snakes are terrible. their venom digests the part of your body they bite. so even if you live - you have a giant rotten hole. those fuckers should be eliminated.

I'm a paramedic. Snoring respirations post snake bite is absolutely not normal and this kid should have been flown to the children's hospital and definitely should have gotten antivenom if the decision was to move the kid because that indicates they knew there were complications.

Cluster fuck. And people say, "Why did you drop out of medical school? You had early admish...blah...blah...blah!"

Why?

Because medicine is a giant cluster fuck and I don't want to spend my life being the fucking little Dutch boy fighting the Katies and Teds of the World.

"The family has decided to have Alyssa's organs cleaned through dialysis so doctors are able to save them and donate them to other children."

Who gets the money for selling the organs?

“We’re hearing too many stories of how horrible it is,” says Carie. “When we moved from Nampa, Idaho everybody told us “Do not get a doctor here, go to a pediatrician in Reno.”
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I'm an RN, and anytime my children have moved, I always check out the hospitals, physicians, and dentists near them. I will google for hours to look for "Top Docs" and specialists in their area, then I suggest one or two for them. As we all know, not all doctors are as competent as some others. I will always be grateful for three physicians at Scripps in San Diego and a cardiac surgeon at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. They saved my adult child's life. If anyone needs physicians in those areas, I will gladly recommend!

May I add, that if you or family members are ever hospitalized, know what meds are to be given, what time, and know all treatments prescribed. Question the doctors and nurses if necessary. You really have to be responsible for your own care, and don't take no for an answer if you feel something isn't right.

Last Edited by nutmeg on 05/16/2020 09:10 AM

The Hospital didn't "deny treatment"...they didn't provide the treatment the parents thought she should have. How many times have parent disagreed with doctors?

You title is misleading, at best. There may have been some valid resaons for not giving the drug, you and I were not there...we don't know. ALL we really know is a family has lost their precious little girl and that is always a tragedy.

Last Edited by FeedYourHead on 05/16/2020 08:28 AM