QUESTION
discharged from ER without needed surgery
Asked on Mar 30th, 2015 on Medical Malpractice - Florida
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I took my son to the ER with a fractured humerus after he fell playing volleiball. The ER's discharged papers said that he didn't need a surgery and advised to follow up with an orthopedic surgeon. I took him to the surgeon on the next day and he had a surgery on the following Monday. My son stayed 8 days at home with a terrible pain from a severed factured and dislocated bone when he could've had that surgery when I first took him to the hospital. Do we have a case?
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No. You indicate that they told you he didnt need surgery but told you to follow up with ortho surgeon. That simply is inconsistent and suggests you misinterpeted EMERGENCY surgery vs. any surgery at all. You then follow up next day with ortho surgeon who performs surgery a week later and equally did not perform emergency surgery. Unless you obtain a written opinion from an othopedic surgeon that the lack of emergency surgery had some catastrophic impact on your child, there is not likely a case here at all.
Answered on Apr 24th, 2015 at 7:46 AM
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