A Patient's Case Study - Hospital Visits

In May of 1999 we made a trip to the emergency room for what looked like a fractured hand. Indeed, the hand was fractured and was placed in a cast.  We stayed in the hospital for approximately a week.  During that time I had to register a complaint with the nursing supervisor regarding the incorrect placement of a steel fracture pan under my mother.  The inquiry was rebuffed. The patient was released and went home. She complained of pain in her pelvis. I took her to the emergency room again.  The doctor we spoke with did not feel an x-ray was necessary and prescribed Fentanyln  patches for pain. We returned home but the pain didn't go away.  We returned to the emergency room again.  This time we found the patient had a fractured hip. The photographs presented are of that part of our journey. 

 

 

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