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Even with the overuse of antibiotics, that seems a bit crazy to me. When I was pregnant and DD stuck her foot out of me, I had to be on IV antibiotics for the duration of the pregnancy even though I never tested positive! They gave me so many, it wiped out my intestinal fauna and all the good bacteria as well, until yeast set in, so then they'd do 3 days IV Flagl and back to the antibiotics with the Flagl treatments every few weeks. Olivia is very allergic to antibiotics (have not tried antifungals). I would blame her in-utero exposure, but I have many family members with extreme antibiotic allergies. Poor thing - that is probably why she was born with lizard skin!
Sending someone home without antibiotics and pain meds after such an invasive procedure, especially someone with a weakened immune system, seems beyond stupid. It is uncaring and neglectful!
Especially an 80 year old woman..it is manslaughter.
Sometimes with older patients I wonder if it is intentional neglect. My sister's 97 yo GFiL went to the hopital for something minor a couple years back and never came out alive. I can no longer remember what it was he had, but I remember we were all furious that they were denying him some pretty basic treatment for it. The Drs. said he was old, his time was up, and his body was shutting down. I suspect that insurance companies come in to play for many of these decisions. I know I was not alone in feeling that he was dying because they would not treat him, not the other way around! Just a few weeks earlier, he was staying with my sister who had just moved to Elk Grove. He usually lived with his daughter due to transient dementia. He was upset that my sister would not allow any fish in her house (Old Norweigan who likes his Ludefisk), so he stormed out the door to take a walk to cool down. My sister knew he would not want her to follow, but she was worried about him losing his way in a place he had never been to before where all the houses look the same, so she went outside to wash the car. When he came back a little while later "What, you worried I'm gonna get lost or something? Well, my hearing may be lousy, but my mind is as sharp as it ever was!"
Remember the man who called me Friday who lost his wife on Thursday? He came in today to file an extension, and he said that even though the Drs. knew his wife was dying and in severe pain fro the last 10 days, they would not give her any pain killers because they dropped her heart rate too much and might kill her! She had kept her Canadian citizenship for the healthcare coverage, but in the end, she was too ill to make the journey.
But that would work.
