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Harpooner
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Goddamn Hospitals and Lawyers
Jul 3 2019 08:52AM more by Harpooner
Tags: San Diego , Random (All tags)

My buddy Ron just got out of the hospital last Saturday after nearly a month “recovering” from a motorcycle crash. He wiped out on I-5 between Camp Pendleton and Oceanside. It was bad. He broke five ribs and dislocated his shoulder, but worst of all, did severe damage to both his legs. After a week in intensive care they told him one of the legs was too badly damaged and would have to be amputated. They did the surgery the next day, and a few hours after he woke up one of the hospital admins told him there was a “mistake” and they took the wrong leg. Two days later they amputated the leg that was supposed to have been taken in the first place. My friend is devastated. This guy was so active and totally into surfing and golf.

I went went with him to the malpractice lawyer yesterday. We’re thinking Ron is going to easily collect a $10 million settlement. Maybe more. He won’t have his legs, but that hospital is going to pay dearly for their incompetence. After gathering all the facts, the lawyer says he won’t take the case because it is highly unlikely Ron is going to win. WTF? Seriously? This should be a slam dunk. So we ask the lawyer how that possibly could be.

And the lawyer replies, “Sorry, but he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.” 🤣
      
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Tabie
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Jul 3 2019 10:46AM     link to this

Tabie
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Jul 3 2019 10:49AM     link to this

When I went down I was blessed with only road burn. It can always be worse. He most likely will never ride again so he must be extremely devastated.

XoTabie
quarante.sept
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Jul 3 2019 10:49AM     link to this

Matt?
Tabie
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Jul 3 2019 10:49AM     link to this

Unless this is just some HX humor 😊
straightman
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Jul 3 2019 11:11AM     link to this

Humor??? I don't think so...
teeitup
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Jul 3 2019 11:13AM     link to this

We don't do humor here. We only sin...seriously
82DABN
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Jul 3 2019 12:14PM     link to this

I wonder if he signed that paper to go to arbitration and forfeit right to sue.
Could have been in the papers they make you sign when your UD.
Usually also the doctors probably aren't employees but contractors.
The surgeon does what he’s told to do they don’t diagnose.
A side note that’s why I dont ride in CA no more everyone is on there phones and to busy to look for riders.
Hope all goes well with him.
dakegg
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Jul 3 2019 01:03PM     link to this

And I bet he doesn’t regret getting a motorcycle
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Jul 3 2019 01:04PM     link to this

I guess some folks don't read things in their entirety....
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Jul 3 2019 01:30PM     link to this

I saw that ending coming.
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Jul 3 2019 02:06PM     link to this

Sounds like Ron is going to be a real drag from now on.
Facephuckker
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Jul 3 2019 02:42PM     link to this

there's always a trike
ColossusJones
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Jul 3 2019 03:16PM     link to this


ITS A JOKE PEOPLE.

billinirvine
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Jul 3 2019 03:27PM     link to this

Bob? If he's in the pool...
havasunow
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Jul 3 2019 04:45PM     link to this

Oh get a life, "It just a flesh wound".
Credit Black Knight in Monte Python & the Holy Grail
Harpooner
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Jul 3 2019 05:34PM     link to this

For those who expressed a concern for Ron and his future, please read the post again. In its entirety. To the very last sentence.
RainMaker1964
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Jul 3 2019 08:53PM     link to this

I just had surgery on my right arm. But, before I went under, wrote “wrong Arm” on left arm. Alls good.

As for your friend, get another lawyer...
TNBE
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Jul 4 2019 12:37AM     link to this

If he lost his arms, you could hang him on a wall and call him Art..
bigseekersb
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Jul 4 2019 04:55AM     link to this

On the off chance there is any truth to the story at all, there are standard procedures to be followed that prevent operating on the wrong body part. X-rays that are clearly marked left and right, for example. Also, the body part itself is marked with ink before the surgery, preferably while the patient is awake. A rechecking of the chart, right there in the operating suite. There is a whole checklist. There is absolutely no excuse for operating on the wrong body part. Ever.
redbull09
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Jul 4 2019 12:43PM     link to this

Some people wouldn't know humor if it ran over them with a truck! Motorcycles are not dangerous, it is the IDIOTS in cages that hit them that are dangerous! Over 30,000 people die a year in US and no one thinks cars are dangerous? Motorcyclists take their own lives(usually) in their hands, while car drivers usually take out other people in a crash.
Bttmlvr
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Dec 20 2019 07:55PM     link to this

Too funny
artnjazz
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Dec 20 2019 09:16PM     link to this

A blind (or blond) girl told me I had a big penis...

But she was just pulling my leg.
Chucklaylo
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Dec 20 2019 10:11PM     link to this

When the proprietor of a house of pleasure answered the doorbell, she found a guy in a wheelchair with no arms or legs.

She asked him what he wanted. He told her he wanted to come in.

She says, “Why, what can you do? You have no arms or legs”.

He replied “I rang the doorbell, didn’t I?”.
1_Kind_Man
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Dec 21 2019 08:22AM     link to this

RainMaker1964, said what I would say about operating on the right body part.
Grumpy_Butthead
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Nov 7 2024 04:37PM     link to this

Since he has no legs, just cut off his arms and you can use him for second base.
Fun4Dayz
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Nov 7 2024 04:46PM     link to this

Hahahaha, i love this joke! Great job, OP.
Marrisa_G
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Nov 7 2024 06:41PM     link to this

It may be a joke, but the procedures used today in almost every hospital in the U.S. are based on some horrific mistakes that happened exactly like that. That's why they mark the site of the surgery with a sharpie prior to the surgery and have what is sometimes called a "timeout" or a "huddle" so that everyone in the OR is on the same page. As a result, those types of mistakes have been largely eliminated. But it took a few poor souls to have the wrong appendage or organ operated on to come to that realization.

But guess what? It still happens occasionally! (see link)

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Oops! Wrong organ!
Grumpy_Butthead
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Nov 7 2024 06:44PM     link to this

I don't wanna see it.I like it better as humor
remo_williams
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Nov 7 2024 07:34PM     link to this

What do you call a man with no arms and no legs laying next to a hole? Doug.

What do you call a man with no arms and no legs laying IN a hole? Phil.
AFMadness
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Nov 7 2024 11:02PM     link to this

And if you get bit by a Mojave' green Rattler in the IE / desert, you get a Helo flight to Loma Linda, as apparently no others have the anti-Venom. Last I heard, 15 years ago, that flight was 17k $.
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