lovelylady67
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Fairly Healthy to Dead Within a few weeks
Well before I go on with a very sad long story about my father .. I would just like to know
what the legal rules are for a person in ICU , bleeding internally ( we didnt know he was bleeding ) ,under the influence a narcotics for the pain of his tumor .
My father informed staff if he did
not see or spreak with his MD he would sign himself out after he was waiting almost 12 hours for anyone that would even give him the time of day , he wanted to know what was going on with his germ cell tumor that was in his liver , his life was being shortened by every second and even I called his doctor a few times with questions , I got no reply , I also physically wrote a letter to the doctor asking him to call me ( the nurses placed this letter right inside my fathers chart info ) and he never called me . He was very weak , he needed a toliet , he was telling the nurses for 3hours ( the nurses station was appox 15 feet from his bed ) and he said all they did in reply was point to a very public toliet in the corner of the ICU that had appox 20 patients.
To make a long story short .... I was called in the early morning hours by ICU staff , stating my dad signed himself out and is waiting outside the hospital ... I asked them to go get him , he was heavily sedated , they told me its not there reasonsiblity to keep a patient there if they dont want to be .
Upon my arrival at the medical center my father was standing in the middle of the street , lost and confused. He told me im sorry I just couldnt talk it there anymore w/ the lack of not knowing anything about his condition and that he messed himself because there was no one to bring him a portible toilet or help him to one .
Within 20 minutes the MD calls my cellphone and says , your father is bleeding internally , that he was scheduled for surgery that morning to stitch up the hole they put in his liver during his biopsy and if he didnt return he would live more than two days tops .
My father asked me to drive him to another hosptial , with a very good reputation in NJ , I drove him there and he was admitted quickly . I told them we needed his medical records from Clara Maass and I tolf them all I knew ... well appox 3 days later they were faxed the info .
We found after waiting so long that he did have a germ cell tumor of his liver ( which was very much treatible ) and he a small malignante tumors throughout his intestinse . Well he passed away night before they were going to begin his chemotherapy.
I think it was wrong of hospital #1 to allow him to leave .
I think it was wrong with the lack of knowlege and unanswered questions .
I think it was wrong that not one person told me or my father or any family member that he was bleeding internally .
I think he was treated poorly .
What can I do ?
I have many details that I can provide , but just wrote some short here to see if I can do anything ..
I would be more than thankful for some information or advice
Well before I go on with a very sad long story about my father .. I would just like to know
what the legal rules are for a person in ICU , bleeding internally ( we didnt know he was bleeding ) ,under the influence a narcotics for the pain of his tumor .
My father informed staff if he did
not see or spreak with his MD he would sign himself out after he was waiting almost 12 hours for anyone that would even give him the time of day , he wanted to know what was going on with his germ cell tumor that was in his liver , his life was being shortened by every second and even I called his doctor a few times with questions , I got no reply , I also physically wrote a letter to the doctor asking him to call me ( the nurses placed this letter right inside my fathers chart info ) and he never called me . He was very weak , he needed a toliet , he was telling the nurses for 3hours ( the nurses station was appox 15 feet from his bed ) and he said all they did in reply was point to a very public toliet in the corner of the ICU that had appox 20 patients.
To make a long story short .... I was called in the early morning hours by ICU staff , stating my dad signed himself out and is waiting outside the hospital ... I asked them to go get him , he was heavily sedated , they told me its not there reasonsiblity to keep a patient there if they dont want to be .
Upon my arrival at the medical center my father was standing in the middle of the street , lost and confused. He told me im sorry I just couldnt talk it there anymore w/ the lack of not knowing anything about his condition and that he messed himself because there was no one to bring him a portible toilet or help him to one .
Within 20 minutes the MD calls my cellphone and says , your father is bleeding internally , that he was scheduled for surgery that morning to stitch up the hole they put in his liver during his biopsy and if he didnt return he would live more than two days tops .
My father asked me to drive him to another hosptial , with a very good reputation in NJ , I drove him there and he was admitted quickly . I told them we needed his medical records from Clara Maass and I tolf them all I knew ... well appox 3 days later they were faxed the info .
We found after waiting so long that he did have a germ cell tumor of his liver ( which was very much treatible ) and he a small malignante tumors throughout his intestinse . Well he passed away night before they were going to begin his chemotherapy.
I think it was wrong of hospital #1 to allow him to leave .
I think it was wrong with the lack of knowlege and unanswered questions .
I think it was wrong that not one person told me or my father or any family member that he was bleeding internally .
I think he was treated poorly .
What can I do ?
I have many details that I can provide , but just wrote some short here to see if I can do anything ..
I would be more than thankful for some information or advice