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egregriously inexcusable, horrendous negligence. And these things happen far more than we'd like to think, too. My best friend of nearly 30 years was killed by doctors last year. She'd fought a seven-year battle with cancer and WON. Several years later, she went for a comprehensive blood test, known as a bone biopsy, as part of her routine checkups. The dipshit resident did it in the wrong place, causing an arterial bleed, and no one, including the attending physicians, did anything about it for many hours, despite my friend's continual complaints that something was wrong.
The bleed caused horrendous internal damage to many organs, she was hospitalized for months straight, in rehab for more months, in and out of the hospital, with great physical suffering, until she finally succumbed nearly a year afterwards. I am still so unbelievably angry at such a senseless, inexcusable negligence that I can hardly see straight whenever I think about it. And don't even mention the words "tort reform" to me, EVER.
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