However, I do admit that I was incorrect in “my statement” regarding how she may or may not have contracted the strep A, as I was not fully aware of how the disease process worked. I thought perhaps it was a different strain of strep A (ya know, like herpes I and II). I had no idea that one has to be “susceptible” (or lack immunity) to the flesh eating disease, but I do now, so all is well…..ramble on

Casual contact, such as shaking hands, riding on the same school bus or being in the same classroom rarely results in infection. While group A streptococcus is passed from person to person,

Strep is communicable. That is how infections are spread.

FLESH EATING DISEASE IS NOT!!!

Wrong. As a communicable disease, it is passed through human contact. This could be by casual contact, but is more likely by way of respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing.

The important fact is that only a few people become affected by the severe effects. Most of us have an immunity that makes the bacteria less dangerous. It is inconsequential if other patients had the bacteria. As as many as 1/3 of people at any one time may carry the bacteria without even knowing. As I said earlier, even her own son or husband may have passed on the bacteria.

Casual contact, such as shaking hands, riding on the same school bus or being in the same classroom rarely results in infection. While group A streptococcus is passed from person to person, FLESH EATING DISEASE IS NOT!!!

In instances where serious disease develops, the presence of sore throat is very unusual.

Necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating disease) is very rare, I highly doubt she picked it up from home, though. Hospitals should be extremely cautious when a person comes in and is diagnosed with such a fetal disease.

I would also want to know if other patient/s were diagnosed with this before I entered, and if so, I’d certainly make the hospital pay!!

It would be nice to see the hospital pay (for) “an arm and a leg” for once!!!

http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/General_Info/Fact_Sheets/FED.htm

Tort reform does NOT mean removing the ability to sue because of negligence or malpractice and anyone who claims that is simply lying or too stupid to understand what tort reform really means.

When the libertarians stop being an umbrella group for every nutjob that doesn’t like following the law, and starts acting like a serious political party instead an Ayn Rand fan fetish club, then I’ll take them seriously.

In the meantime, the only clear message i have ever gotten from that party is “I got mine, fuck you” and I might be a pussy liberal in your eyes, but Libertarians do not want a social safety net, they do not want anything for society… they just want to be left alone. That’s just not good enough in my view.

The problem is that she has to obtain enough evidence to determine if there is grounds for a claim, the point of this story.

Even improved sterile conditions might not have saved her as it appears she had little immunity against it. Her own family has as much a possibility of passing her the bacteria as any Hospital employee.

This is a sad case and I wish she never experienced the disease. I don’t know enough to pass judgment, but I would think she has an uphill struggle to claim damages from the hospital.

The excuse given sounds like that — an excuse.

Utter nonsense. Libertarians are the number one advocates for CIVIL court actions taking the place of a government creating civil code or criminal prosecution.

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Tort reform does NOT mean removing the ability to sue because of negligence or malpractice and anyone who claims that is simply lying or too stupid to understand what tort reform really means.

The hospital royally screwed up and is simply in CYA mode now. Simply following normal universal precautions to prevent the spread of infectious diseases would have spared the poor lady her limbs. Someone took a shortcut, didn’t properly clean something, or touched 2 patients without proper hand washing.

The poor lady should go talk to the most prestigious law firm in Miami and sit back and watch that stupid hospital squirm.

Don

That won’t give her her arms back. She contracted the disease and that was the way to get rid of it. Now, if she’s looking for malpractice (as in the source of the infection), I don’t think any hospital in the world would give you that info willingly, especially if they want to know if anyone else contracted the same disease. Maybe she’s also looking to sue another patient nearby who she may think had the infection in the first place.

Touchy subject

That’s what Republicans and Libertarians want for the United States.

Hospitals are known for their lack of infection control. A good malpractice attorney should be able to unravel the facts of the case; if the hospital had an adequate policy (CDC Guidelines) of infection control and if they followed their own procedures.