It's Lily's second birthday on Sunday and we're trying to throw her a little party on the weekend. As usual we left it till late. :)
If you live on the Montreal's South Shore, anywhere between Longueuil and St-Hya-Hya, make sure that in case of an emergency you're never taken to Honoré-Mercier Hospital in St-Hyacinthe.
They're a bunch of wankers. They were when I was growing up (kept hearing horror stories from that place), they still lived up to it when I left the country more than ten years ago, and apparently they're in good shape now. /sarcasm
After killing 16 people in 2006 due to a Clostridium Difficile infection outbreak and getting 153 millions of taxpayers money to pay for decon and refurbishment work, they're still as dangerous as they ever were. Yeah, back in 2006, because they couldn't be bothered to clean medical equipment properly, you'd walk in there for a broken finger and be wheeled out feet first a few days later, having died of a serious intestinal infection. During the public inquest it was found that 3 people died in the same bed, which had not been cleaned or disinfected in-between each patient. Can you believe that?
But I digress. My grand-father was recently taken there after a fall, as you know, and after a week (3 days spent in the hall of the ER), they sent him back home. Well, you know what? He had a broken leg and they never diagnosed it. Never treated it. In a whole week. Both bones (tibia and fibula) snapped clean and the wankers didn't see it. Apparently they didn't even x-ray him below the knee despite the nurses from the home noting in his chart that they thought he might have broken his ankle and/or foot. (he was pretty sore and couldn't pinpoint where it hurt the worst) Because once in hospital he complained about his hip, that's all the checked out. Damn lucky they did catch his urinary infection, but not until he'd gone into septic shock.
The EMTs that took him back to the hospital were the same that had taken him home the day before and they apparently gave the triage nurse a hell of a time, according to my uncle who was accompanying my grandpa. She should have noted all this to begin with, I agree, but what of the doctors and nurses that treated him after admission? I just can't imagine how you can miss that. He was always crying out when they were touching him or trying to move him. I mean, he's not a man that complains. That should have rung some alarm bells. I mean he's what now? 92. 92 years old with two broken bones and no one looking after his leg. How well will that heal now?
My mom is freaking out with a major guilt trip. She thinks she should have pushed at the time.
It's a fucking freak show. That hospital is already being sued its pants off. Don't know if my family will bother adding to the list...
/rant
They're a bunch of wankers. They were when I was growing up (kept hearing horror stories from that place), they still lived up to it when I left the country more than ten years ago, and apparently they're in good shape now. /sarcasm
After killing 16 people in 2006 due to a Clostridium Difficile infection outbreak and getting 153 millions of taxpayers money to pay for decon and refurbishment work, they're still as dangerous as they ever were. Yeah, back in 2006, because they couldn't be bothered to clean medical equipment properly, you'd walk in there for a broken finger and be wheeled out feet first a few days later, having died of a serious intestinal infection. During the public inquest it was found that 3 people died in the same bed, which had not been cleaned or disinfected in-between each patient. Can you believe that?
But I digress. My grand-father was recently taken there after a fall, as you know, and after a week (3 days spent in the hall of the ER), they sent him back home. Well, you know what? He had a broken leg and they never diagnosed it. Never treated it. In a whole week. Both bones (tibia and fibula) snapped clean and the wankers didn't see it. Apparently they didn't even x-ray him below the knee despite the nurses from the home noting in his chart that they thought he might have broken his ankle and/or foot. (he was pretty sore and couldn't pinpoint where it hurt the worst) Because once in hospital he complained about his hip, that's all the checked out. Damn lucky they did catch his urinary infection, but not until he'd gone into septic shock.
The EMTs that took him back to the hospital were the same that had taken him home the day before and they apparently gave the triage nurse a hell of a time, according to my uncle who was accompanying my grandpa. She should have noted all this to begin with, I agree, but what of the doctors and nurses that treated him after admission? I just can't imagine how you can miss that. He was always crying out when they were touching him or trying to move him. I mean, he's not a man that complains. That should have rung some alarm bells. I mean he's what now? 92. 92 years old with two broken bones and no one looking after his leg. How well will that heal now?
My mom is freaking out with a major guilt trip. She thinks she should have pushed at the time.
It's a fucking freak show. That hospital is already being sued its pants off. Don't know if my family will bother adding to the list...
/rant
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