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[pnwmom]

260. Your nurse friend is obviously only familiar with GOOD hospitals,

for her to say that a child would never not be fed in one.

She would probably ALSO say that a patient admitted with pneumonia (a diagnosis from an office visit) would never be left unseen by any hospital doctor that night, not given antibiotics or oxygen. No nurse would ever enter a patient's room, see he was turning blue, enter "cyanosis" into the chart, and then ask just him if he needed anything. If he said, "I don't know," no nurse would EVER write that down in the chart and then just leave the room and not return for 4 hours, right? No previously healthy patient with a strong heart (according to the autopsy) would EVER die like that.

Right? Except that was one of my relatives, and all those things happened according to medical records, and yes, there was a lawsuit, and yes, the widow won.

By the way that was in Nevada, where the hospitals rank 46th in the country, and no parent with other options should let a child with a very rare and very life threatening illness be cared for there. The child is much better off at UCLA, which the mother realizes.

This was her Facebook post about a week ago:

But don't worry she is receiving the standard of care of any other academic center in the country. Let's just trust these fellows and nurses that they are helping Grace the best they actually know how, and respect the process, People!