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re: Woman dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria, Husband blames delayed diagnosis

Posted on 5/11/18 at 9:56 am to
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 9:56 am to
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Misdiagnosis maybe
True. Was it a misdiagnosis due to the nature of medicine not being a perfect science, or was it a misdiagnosis because the physician was lazy and prescribed an antibiotic and sent her on her merry way
This post was edited on 5/11/18 at 10:01 am
Posted by DemonKA3268
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Posted on 5/11/18 at 9:59 am to
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True. Was it a misdiagnosis due to the mature of medicine not being a perfect science, or was it a misdiagnosis because the physician was lazy and prescribed an antibiotic and sent her on her merry way
I sure don't know but the one treatment cures all method isn't the way to go.
Posted by LSUERDOC
Member since Jul 2013
2608 posts
Posted on 5/11/18 at 2:02 pm to
You should probably learn more about standard of care before making statements like these...

The lady came to the doctor for an abscess with likely mild surrounding cellulitis (we see this every day in the ER). The standard of care is incision and drainage or warm compresses if the doctor feels like it will burst on its own +/- antibiotics. Now, unless the lady was septic and near death when he saw her, then he did not commit malpractice and was not lazy.
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