http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/23/kaiser-permanente-physician-ignored-mans-cancer-symptoms/ Kaiser Permanente: Failure to Thrive -- A Managed Care Watch Web Site Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/23/kaiser-permanente-physician-ignored-mans-cancer-symptoms/#comment-19089 gary Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:18:46 +0000 http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/23/kaiser-permanente-physician-ignored-mans-cancer-symptoms/#comment-19089 There are Dr who are just in it for the money. I sometimes think that unless you have connection with the doc. (race, gender etc) They just see you as a meal with legs. I have dealt with some wonderful docs, mediocre docs, and bad docs. Fortunately the bad docs have not "done harm" to me or my family. I hope that the responsible people are prosecuted. I can't believe that they know the pain that their laziness and inaction causes. If nothing else at least I hope they spend a lot of sleepless night. Not my first rodeo yah know!!! God bless you and your family. There are Dr who are just in it for the money. I sometimes think that unless you have connection with the doc. (race, gender etc) They just see you as a meal with legs. I have dealt with some wonderful docs, mediocre docs, and bad docs. Fortunately the bad docs have not “done harm” to me or my family. I hope that the responsible people are prosecuted. I can’t believe that they know the pain that their laziness and inaction causes. If nothing else at least I hope they spend a lot of sleepless night. Not my first rodeo yah know!!! God bless you and your family.

]]> http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/23/kaiser-permanente-physician-ignored-mans-cancer-symptoms/#comment-13028 pat Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:24:31 +0000 http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/23/kaiser-permanente-physician-ignored-mans-cancer-symptoms/#comment-13028 I just read your letter and my deepest sympathy to your family. I have a similar story in 2003 early July my mother kept complianing about being tired, coughing,pains in her shoulder ,having trouble catching a breath. She went to the doctor several times each time was told she either had bronchitis, arthritis, or a flu, I told her to demand test that this wasnt normal, she did they finally did them and it was too late, we were told she had stage 4 lung and liver cancer no cure or hope. I lost my mom 3 wks later. Had they listened to her maybe she would still be here. I just read your letter and my deepest sympathy to your family. I have a similar story in 2003 early July my mother kept complianing about being tired, coughing,pains in her shoulder ,having trouble catching a breath. She went to the doctor several times each time was told she either had bronchitis, arthritis, or a flu, I told her to demand test that this wasnt normal, she did they finally did them and it was too late, we were told she had stage 4 lung and liver cancer no cure or hope. I lost my mom 3 wks later. Had they listened to her maybe she would still be here.

]]> http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/23/kaiser-permanente-physician-ignored-mans-cancer-symptoms/#comment-12973 Elizabeth Medeiros Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:31:54 +0000 http://www.kaiserthrive.org/2006/10/23/kaiser-permanente-physician-ignored-mans-cancer-symptoms/#comment-12973 My father died Oct 28, 2006 at Kaiser. For 1 year he complained of back pain, leg pain, shortness of breathe, fatigue, and he had several infections. He was given inhalers and he never used them in his life. He was given vicodan and when that didn't work he was given oxycodone and nuerotin for nerve pain. A x-ray wasn't ordered for 8 months and a mri was ordered 2 weeks later. He was given a cortisone shot and his doctor went on vacation. No doctor read the MRI and it showed lymphoma. An agressive type. I took him to the emergency room where he was diagnosed and he never left the hospital. He was exposed to three infections. Two that contributed to his death and are scientificly proven linked to construction and known to infect immunocompromised patients. A new hospital is being built all around the exsisting campus and the exsisting hospital is still operating. The lymphoma was under control at the time of his death as told to us by his oncologist. He was given pills by one nurse with her bare hands and fake fingernails straight into his mouth. I actually wiped feces off the walls ans floor as the nurses had a habit of throwing his dirty linens on the floor as they were changing him. Whenever asked my dad would always deny pain and he would be given sedatives anyway. He also had a reaction to platelets and the orders were for them to be irradiated but they ceased to be and I can only think that the standing order was not found. This place is a nightmare and it got worse. When my father had the second reaction to the non-irradiated platelets it was so bad he had to be intubated. His body was so riddled with infection and the reaction caused anaphylaxis that he never made it out of the ICU. When my mother decided not to re-intubate him and see if he could come around on his own the doctor took it to mean that she agreed to a DNR that stated Not To Resusitate and move to "comfort care". We only found out when we started to notice that his meds. and eye drops (he had gone blind in one eye because of one of the fungalinfections) and his food. When he wasn't reintubated we asked what happened next. The doctor stated that he would give him morphine and hoped he slept through it. We thought he meant sleep through this episode not sleep through his death. When the nurse said that she would give him 2 mgs. he replied that they would give him 4 mgs. IV push. I will never forget those words and didnot realize what was happening. We are sick. We took my dad to the hospital to get getter not to die in 9 weeks. How does a doctor get away with placing a DNR on a patient's chart without the permission of the family? My dad did not have one before he entered the hospital and did not sign one during his hospitalization. My parents were married for 51 years. My father died Oct 28, 2006 at Kaiser. For 1 year he complained of back pain, leg pain, shortness of breathe, fatigue, and he had several infections. He was given inhalers and he never used them in his life. He was given vicodan and when that didn’t work he was given oxycodone and nuerotin for nerve pain. A x-ray wasn’t ordered for 8 months and a mri was ordered 2 weeks later. He was given a cortisone shot and his doctor went on vacation. No doctor read the MRI and it showed lymphoma. An agressive type. I took him to the emergency room where he was diagnosed and he never left the hospital. He was exposed to three infections. Two that contributed to his death and are scientificly proven linked to construction and known to infect immunocompromised patients. A new hospital is being built all around the exsisting campus and the exsisting hospital is still operating. The lymphoma was under control at the time of his death as told to us by his oncologist. He was given pills by one nurse with her bare hands and fake fingernails straight into his mouth. I actually wiped feces off the walls ans floor as the nurses had a habit of throwing his dirty linens on the floor as they were changing him. Whenever asked my dad would always deny pain and he would be given sedatives anyway. He also had a reaction to platelets and the orders were for them to be irradiated but they ceased to be and I can only think that the standing order was not found. This place is a nightmare and it got worse. When my father had the second reaction to the non-irradiated platelets it was so bad he had to be intubated. His body was so riddled with infection and the reaction caused anaphylaxis that he never made it out of the ICU. When my mother decided not to re-intubate him and see if he could come around on his own the doctor took it to mean that she agreed to a DNR that stated Not To Resusitate and move to “comfort care”. We only found out when we started to notice that his meds. and eye drops (he had gone blind in one eye because of one of the fungalinfections) and his food. When he wasn’t reintubated we asked what happened next. The doctor stated that he would give him morphine and hoped he slept through it. We thought he meant sleep through this episode not sleep through his death. When the nurse said that she would give him 2 mgs. he replied that they would give him 4 mgs. IV push. I will never forget those words and didnot realize what was happening. We are sick. We took my dad to the hospital to get getter not to die in 9 weeks. How does a doctor get away with placing a DNR on a patient’s chart without the permission of the family? My dad did not have one before he entered the hospital and did not sign one during his hospitalization. My parents were married for 51 years.

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