Also, there are other, better examples. Messing up a blood draw is a known and acceptable risk that can happen anywhere. Everyone has stories about someone’s bad experience and nobody is calling for investigation and change, much less calling it ‘bad healthcare’. It just happens sometimes. Your experience sucked, and I get that - nobody likes it when acceptable risk rolls less favorable.
It wasn’t too long ago that unresponsive patients in the VA were suffering from bedbugs and made national news. That alone speaks volumes about what was wrong, medical and non-medical, that just should not happen. And that it happened to multiple people at the same time, in the same place, showed it was systemic. Investigations needed to be done to determine cause and if any criminal activity took place. So if we really want to discuss bad healthcare, there are much better hard hitting examples.
A single phlebotomy is a useless data point when talking about anything at scale. Especially when you yourself say it was the only one you have had a problem with.blem with.
When my daughter was an infant she needed a blood draw, I forget why, but the three people working in the hospital had no idea how to draw blood from an infant. They were trying to do it like you would an adult… and failing. Finally I told them to stop and went and found an older nurse. She came in, pricked her heel and all was done.
Like I said… anecdotal. I’ve never had that problem with any other blood draw, ever.
When I was enlisted, the care sucked
Also, there are other, better examples. Messing up a blood draw is a known and acceptable risk that can happen anywhere. Everyone has stories about someone’s bad experience and nobody is calling for investigation and change, much less calling it ‘bad healthcare’. It just happens sometimes. Your experience sucked, and I get that - nobody likes it when acceptable risk rolls less favorable.
It wasn’t too long ago that unresponsive patients in the VA were suffering from bedbugs and made national news. That alone speaks volumes about what was wrong, medical and non-medical, that just should not happen. And that it happened to multiple people at the same time, in the same place, showed it was systemic. Investigations needed to be done to determine cause and if any criminal activity took place. So if we really want to discuss bad healthcare, there are much better hard hitting examples.
A single phlebotomy is a useless data point when talking about anything at scale. Especially when you yourself say it was the only one you have had a problem with.blem with.
When my daughter was an infant she needed a blood draw, I forget why, but the three people working in the hospital had no idea how to draw blood from an infant. They were trying to do it like you would an adult… and failing. Finally I told them to stop and went and found an older nurse. She came in, pricked her heel and all was done.
Mistakes can happen anywhere.