Lawsuit for Undiagnosed Apnea?

[Goofproof]

Took 3 years to diagnosis.

Heart, adrenals, pulmanology, allergies, leaky gut, panic attacks

Anybody sued a hospital?

Do you have documentation for all of the many times over the years that you must have asked your primary specifically for a sleep test but were denied in writing?

Remember: "Ignorance is nine-tenths of the law." Wait! Or is it: "Possession is bliss"? Or: "A penny taken is a penny earned"? Well, I'm sure there is an appropriate cliche to quote, if I could just remember one properly. I used to know them all before OSA. Or at least I assume I must have.

if you were improperly treated, how would you know?

Perhaps he found a microscope under his hind site. Jim

Eureka, it is 20/20!

[Patriot Partner]

Took 3 years to diagnosis.

Heart, adrenals, pulmanology, allergies, leaky gut, panic attacks

Anybody sued a hospital?

I've been on this board for 10 years and cannot remember a new person with more complaints than you.
[/quoteLSAT.

Hey LSAT.......

Actually, it wasn't a a complaint. It was a question.

I notice that your posts are boring. Mundane. Unoriginal.

Take note. People actually read my posts.

The first was a humorous description of a vintage Bipap. The second was a lighthearted look at a potential household emergency appliance.

How old are you exactly?

You seem to have one foot in the grave. Perhaps dementiatic.

But certainly a boor.

Avoid parties.

[palerider]

Took 3 years to diagnosis.

Heart, adrenals, pulmanology, allergies, leaky gut, panic attacks

Anybody sued a hospital?

I've been on this board for 10 years and cannot remember a new person with more complaints than you.

Take note. People actually read my posts.

Not for much longer, I predict.

[zonker]

Took 3 years to diagnosis.

Heart, adrenals, pulmanology, allergies, leaky gut, panic attacks

Anybody sued a hospital?

I've been on this board for 10 years and cannot remember a new person with more complaints than you.

Take note. People actually read my posts.

Not for much longer, I predict.

he's on my foe list, so i only see his posts when someone quotes him.

does that count as reading his posts?

[palerider]

Take note. People actually read my posts.

Not for much longer, I predict.

he's on my foe list, so i only see his posts when someone quotes him.

does that count as reading his posts?

that is one of the problems with the whole foe thing.

I'm still trying to figure out that nonsensical leak or AHI post... if there's ever any answer there, I may give up on reading 'em too.

[TropicalDiver]

Took 3 years to diagnosis.

Heart, adrenals, pulmanology, allergies, leaky gut, panic attacks

Anybody sued a hospital?

I am sorry it took so long for you to be diagnosed.

In terms of litigation, you would have two challenges. First, you would need to prove that your care was far enough below the accepted standard of medical care as to constitute negligence. For example, you present at the ER with chest pain radiating down your arm and they don't perform an EKG. Second, you would need to be harmed -- say having a MI that could have been treated with urgent treatment in the cath lab -- and now have cardiac damage.

The question isn't could they have caught it sooner, the question is should they have caught it sooner (and the failure to do so was negligent). My apnea was ultimately caught by my very old-school gastro after doing an endoscopy. It was a combination of him being aware of apnea and having paid attention to my anatomy. That then resulted in a sleep study with an AHI of 89. Him failing to suggest a sleep study would certainly not have been negligent.

Caveat: I am neither an attorney nor a health care practitioner and am speaking from a US perspective. Also legal standards and damages vary by state and by nation.

[Patriot Partner]

Wow

Palerider and LSAT are so old that they seem to be losing touch with reality

They have no original posts, and live to critique others

Dementia is scary

Let's hope neither has to wear diapers

[Patriot Partner]

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hi IQ response from tropical diver

Thanks, very useful

I have no intention of a lawsuit

However, I thought the topic might help someone else

[LSAT]

Wow

Palerider and LSAT are so old that they seem to be losing touch with reality

They have no original posts, and live to critique others

Dementia is scary

Let's hope neither has to wear diapers

Sometime if you stop posting crap, stop and read our 35,000 posts...maybe you will learn something. ....(then again..maybe not)

[Patriot Partner]

Actually, I was quite friendly until you attacked me. I never initiate negativity, but occasionally confront bullies if I'm forced to.

As far as reading your 3 million posts, LOL, I'd be as old as you by the time I got done.

I'm sure all 3 million were fascinating indeed, with a prose value in the Keats range.

[chunkyfrog]

They call it medical PRACTICE for a good reason.
They learn more every year.
No doctor sprang full-grown from Hippocrates' forehead.
Disease is always a jump ahead of the curative science.
We, and they, do the best we can, usually. .

[D.H.]

Patients snore loudly in hospitals, and nobody seems to consider it problematic, other than the noise might be annoying to other patients and staff!

This is not acceptable!

[LSAT]

Actually, I was quite friendly until you attacked me. I never initiate negativity, but occasionally confront bullies if I'm forced to.

As far as reading your 3 million posts, LOL, I'd be as old as you by the time I got done.

I'm sure all 3 million were fascinating indeed, with a prose value in the Keats range.

You like getting personal???? I can now understand why you are single and divorced.

[chunkyfrog]

And please try to curse more softly.
Your parents are getting getting worried.

[palerider]

Wow

Palerider and LSAT are so old that they seem to be losing touch with reality

They have no original posts, and live to critique others

Dementia is scary

Let's hope neither has to wear diapers

Sometime if you stop posting crap, stop and read our 35,000 posts...maybe you will learn something. ....(then again..maybe not)

Can I put $5 on "not"? I mean the odds on that are probably really bad anyway, but I might get back 6$ if I win.