Frederick S. Southwick (2013), a professor of medicine at the University of Florida, is the author of “Losing My Leg to a Medical Error.” In this article, a man, I will refer to as patient X, had pain in his left calf which initiated him to be admitted to the hospital to have an amputation procedure done above the left knee. Two months after continuous pain he was finally admitted to the hospital to receive an amputation above his left knee. The physician in charge of his case was unsure why blood flow was cut off to his lower left extremity because the patient had never smoked, didn’t have diabetes or low cholesterol and there was no evidence for atherosclerosis, the hardening of arteries. In 1995, the patient had surgery done on his left…
Exposition There were butterflies in my stomach and I could feel beads of sweat run down my face. A policeman unlocked my handcuffs and pushed me into the dark cell. My clothes were mucky and weighed down with sweat. The dirty cell had a foul stench of garbage and rotten sewage which made it impossible to withstand. My family were supporters of women's rights ever since I was a little girl .…
have you ever been lied and end up in a bad situation? it was may 2005 I was a high school student in Ethiopia. it was election time. four parties were running for the majority sit in the parliament. among those parties two of them are the most competitive once.…
On November 19th, 2017 I was dispatched to 37 Falcon Drive regarding physical disturbance still in progress. I arrived a minute after Sgt. Marler. Upon my arrival I entered the house and could hear Sgt. Marler giving commands at the end of the hall.…
When that was over I laid into my hospital bed waiting for further instructions. She came back with really warm hospital blankets and had me lay down. She was rubbing special stuff all over my arm and told me that the next park was gonna hurt a bit. I looked at my parents, and they said everything was going to be fine. She poked an IV into my arm, when 2 anesthesiologists, one on the older side, and one very young walked in and started to make really corny jokes.…
The kneecap once again tore its way out of its socket. I was laying there with a face/mask full of snow yelling in pain as my mom and sister rushed down. My dad had no idea because he was waiting at the bottom. They each grabbed one shoulder and carried me off where I was rushed to the…
On December twentieth in 2013 I was adopted. Although I love my dad very much, it was very hard to be rejected by my biological father. Within a month or two I then had spinal fusion. I grew up having scoliosis as a child and all of their efforts to stop my back from curving even more had failed. After finishing an amazing season of cross country where I was on varsity as a freshman.…
One of the biggest issues I have dealt with was my knee injury nearly three years ago. From a young age, I have been involved in volleyball. I first began playing rec volleyball which kept me active and didn’t take up a lot of extra time. Then when I got to high school, volleyball began to take up more and more of my time. For nearly two years I participated in volleyball year-round and was becoming a good all-around player, and my coaches were starting to recognize that.…
Then i was freaking out because I pulled down my sock and blood was just dripping down from my knee. I couldn’t walk or do anything because the adults were trying to help me by calming me down and giving me water while they dialed 911. I was scared didn’t know what to do since my parents were not there to help me. Since they weren’t there, I didn’t feel safe when adults would try to give me water or tried helping…
The day I got stitches I was in the park with my friends in the night. When I was leaving the park with my mom I found a wooden bat full of tape. In my house I was trying to take off the tape with a knife. My dad told me stop leave that bat alone you are going to get cut. When he left the house I got curious and started to take off the tape from the bat.…
I was so upset and scared, I really didn’t know what happen since it happened so fast. I looked down at my arm because it hurt so badly and it was two or three times the size it is supposed to be. I had to get up and catch my horse who was running around and unsaddle him before I worried about my arm, which was killing me. I caught my horse, unsaddled him, and put him in his stall while tears were running down my face. My brother Joey helped me unsaddle him…
Then my mother saw the needle. My mom shook and shook and shook her. In the ambulance my sister didn 't come back to us. she laid still and silent, just a heartbeat away from death. She started convulsing, her eyes rolled back into her head, my mother started screaming for help, thinking my sister was on brink of…
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and I just kept reminding myself to stay focused. I climbed into my truck and drove myself home. My mom was outside working when I pulled up. I explained what happened and I got into the car to go to the emergency room. The pain continued to increase and I began to get dizzy and hot.…
There once was a guy that always got bullied, because he was bad at all sports. One day I got a idea to go play some basketball with my brother. I started walking to my brothers room to go tell him to go outside. " Triston do you want to go shoot some hoops?…