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During a stay in the hospital for an unrelated cause, One acquire a staph
infection
To add insult, One is charged for treating the staph infection.
Does One have recourse?
Thanks cray
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Cray,
During a stay in the hospital for an unrelated cause, One acquire a staph
infection
To add insult, One is charged for treating the staph infection.
Does One have recourse?
You don't say above why anyone is at fault. You can look in your local
phonebook for an attorney who specializes in medical malpractice. It is
common in this speciality to have lawyers who will give a free initial
consult, so you should be able to get some free advice. Be sure to ask about
the cost of the consult when you make your appointment. Speak to several
lawyers, then decide what you wish to do.
Good luck,
Dave M.
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In article <p6ent3dagl7rdjaona98ko0doomadv8npv@4ax.com>,
cray <cray@nospam.com> wrote:
During a stay in the hospital for an unrelated cause, One acquire a staph
infection
To add insult, One is charged for treating the staph infection.
Does One have recourse?
Can you _prove_ you were not already infected (and not just un-diagnosed/
non-symptomatic) when you entered the hospital?
Can you _prove_ that it was not acquired from one of _your_ visitors?
Were any others at the hospital infected at approximately the same time?
The more 'yes' answers, the better the chances of being able to do something.
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On Mar 15, 7:00 am, "cray" <c...@nospam.com> wrote:
During a stay in the hospital for an unrelated cause, One acquire a staph
infection
To add insult, One is charged for treating the staph infection.
Does One have recourse?
Thanks cray
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Nope.
If your sick, the hospital is the worse place to be. (Think of the
irony there.)
Where is the medical malpractice?
Staph infections happen all the time.
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On Mar 15, 8:00 am, "cray" <c...@nospam.com> wrote:
During a stay in the hospital for an unrelated cause, One acquire a staph
infection
To add insult, One is charged for treating the staph infection.
Does One have recourse?
Some states (including MD I believe) have laws prohibiting a medical
provider from charging a patient for services provided to examine or
treat a condition caused by that provider's own negligence (on the
principle that, as we learned in kindergarten, when you make a mess,
you clean it up and don't blame others).
In other states, you may be able to raise a similar argument as a
defense to the hospital's claim for an unpaid bill. Whether it would
succeed or not, I couldn't tell you.
The premise for such a claim, however, would be that the nosocomial
infection was the result of negligence. This is not a given, and
would require proof through evidence.
If one is faced with such a situation, in any jurisdiction, one would
be well advised to consult legal counsel. Your damages that you can
recover from the hospital may far exceed merely being relieved of
their bill. If this is not a hypothetical.
--
This posting is for discussion purposes, not professional advice.
Anything you post on this Newsgroup is public information.
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Mike Jacobs
LAW OFFICE OF W. MICHAEL JACOBS
10440 Little Patuxent Pkwy #300
Columbia, MD 21044
(tel) 410-740-5685 (fax) 410-740-4300
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On Mar 15, 8:00 am, "cray" <c...@nospam.com> wrote:
During a stay in the hospital for an unrelated cause, One acquire a staph
infection
To add insult, One is charged for treating the staph infection.
Does One have recourse?
Assuming "One" can actually *prove* that One acquired the infection at
the hospital and nowhere else (a very difficult thing to do), then One
*may* have recourse *if* One can also prove that the infection
occurred from a breach in the standard of care that was provided to
One by a medical professional.
Causation is a very difficult thing to prove with infections because
germs and other microscopic creepy-crawlies are everywhere, not just
in hospitals; and medical personnel are generally well-trained and
equipped to sterilize instruments and other items that come into
contact with the human body, so as to minimize the risk of infection.
Call a local medical malpractice attorney. You should be able to find
a dozen or more in the yellow pages.
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| On Mar 15, 8:00 am, "cray" <c...@nospam.com> wrote:
|| > During a stay in the hospital for an unrelated cause, One acquire a
staph
| > infection
| > To add insult, One is charged for treating the staph infection.
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| > Does One have recourse?
|| Assuming "One" can actually *prove* that One acquired the infection at
| the hospital and nowhere else (a very difficult thing to do), then One
| *may* have recourse *if* One can also prove that the infection
| occurred from a breach in the standard of care that was provided to
| One by a medical professional.
|| Causation is a very difficult thing to prove with infections because
| germs and other microscopic creepy-crawlies are everywhere, not just
| in hospitals; and medical personnel are generally well-trained and
| equipped to sterilize instruments and other items that come into
| contact with the human body, so as to minimize the risk of infection.
|| Call a local medical malpractice attorney. You should be able to find
| a dozen or more in the yellow pages.
Staphococus germs are everywhere, in the dirt under your feet and on the
surface of your skin. Any lesion may permit an infection. Most folk in the
hospital are subject to an impaired immure system and this circumstance
often allows staph to take hold with bad results.
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