thing that happened to your cousin; a resident was doing a bone biopsy and nicked an artery. However, both she and her attending doc ignored what she'd done for nearly an entire day, despite my friend's protests that something was wrong (she'd previously fought cancer and won, so she knew what was likely happening). By that time, the internal bleeding of "dirty" arterial blood had gone on long enough to do extensive, irreparable damage to many critical organs. She was in the hospital for six months straight, suffering terribly, was in a rehab facility for a few more months, then seemed to be a bit on the mend. However, she relapsed, spent more months in the hospital, and finally succumbed nearly ten months later. Anger doesn't even begin to describe it. If that fucking idiot resident couldn't even do a basic test right without killing a patient, then she had no business being anywhere around patients or even being a doc in the first place. Her ignoring what she'd done, and her attending doc going along with it, was even more infuriating.
Her family filed a medical malpractice suit, of course, as they definitely should have done, and the hospital and doc's attorneys fought it tooth and nail, despite their OWN experts employed by the hospital saying that the hospital and the docs were at fault, slammed and trashed my friend in responsive pleadings filed with the court saying SHE was at fault (grrrrr!), etc., etc. The suit was filed shortly before she died, and the attorneys even fought allowing her family to be substituted as plaintiffs after her death, the fuckers.
Well, you can just imagine what consecutive months of hospitalization cost, especially at a fancy-pants hospital like that one. Shortly before her death, she and her family started getting hounded for payment; she'd told their insurance company she was disputing any and all bills the hospital and docs submitted so they were putting a hold on any payments until it was resolved. They continued getting hounded even after her death, and they told the hospital and docs to go fuck themselves, THEY were the cause of the hospitalizations and her suffering, they weren't getting a goddamned dime.
The hospital finally backed down in the lawsuit, being told by their own experts that it was futile, they were, indeed, at fault, and the records clearly showed that. The suit was settled and the hospital wanted the family to apply part of it to the bill. The family again told them to go to hell, they weren't getting a dime for killing my friend, and the court backed them up. It's been years and it's still saddening and infuriating.
I am very glad your cousin survived and I know full well how much he suffered, having seen it firsthand. Eric Munoz and his wife's family needs to tell this hospital to go to hell, fuck their bills, they aren't getting a fucking dime, it's all on THEM. They should not have to use up their insurance cap or file bankruptcy or any of the other fucking bullshit the medical establishment forces on people when they get sick or injured.
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