I may finally have an attorney...

After talking with an attorney since just before Christmas, it looks like I may have someone to take the case against Northside Hospital. I've also talked with several other people who've had problems with Northside, and they're considering contacting the same lawyer.

The way I figure it, if Northside can't make sure they're going to give the best medical care possible, they should either 1) close or 2) clean up their act. To have someone die after getting good medical care is one thing; we all die, sooner or later. And if a hospital and/or medical practitioner, whether a doctor, nurse, nurse's aid, or technician, have given the patient the best possible medical care and done everything possible to make that patient either better or, in a terminal case, not worse, but comfortable and that patient still passes away, everyone--family, personnel, etc--can rest assured that it was that patient's "time", and that they at least had a chance. But to give slipshod care, no care at all, or to act in such a way as to hasten that patient's death when that patient may have had a chance, be it another 6 months or 6 decades, is an atrocity that must be addressed.

That's my point.

Another dissatisfied patient

If you've read through this blog thus far, you may have noticed the list of patients who've mentioned problems with Northside Hospital thus far. (Note December 19, 2007's posting.) This, along with the mention by one of the comments (listed under the first posting) by an RN who brought her ex-husband home rather than subject him to one of the "non-critical" (ie, ICU, CCU, et al) floors, is just a small fraction of Northside's former patients who are unhappy with their care (or lack thereof) recieved at Northside, I'm sure.

One of the patients mentioned in December 19's post now has my attorney's name, phone number, and email address, as well as the phone number for the Agency for Healthcare Administration. He is planning on filing suit, also.

I'm sure that if enough people complain and/or raise a stink over the treatment of this hospital, someone has got to listen.

Forwarding charts...

I have forwarded P__'s charts to an attorney. Hopefully, he'll be able to work on a case for me against Northside. While their CCU was good, the floors there were attrocious.

I think that most likely I'll be contacting the media...