I was hospitalised last year and a lure that was inserted in my foot tissued which in turn caused 2nd-3rd degree burns to a significant part of my right foot. The Doctor was at least honest enough to admit to this saying he pushed the potassium chloride through too fast and at each dressing (which was really painful) I noticed blistering, then discolouring, the area turned white then parts of it started becoming necrotic, firstly a small area then it started getting larger. The doctor took a photo and passed it onto the plastics unit at another hospital who sent out a medical photographer, by this time there were more blisters forming under my middle toes. They scheduled me for an urgent skin graft and debridement to try to save my foot the next day. However the foot was so infected that they could only debride it, and vacuum seal it for 3 days then did a successful skin graft. The donor site is only just starting to heal now, and although the skin graft took (at the end of sept last year) it is still too tender for the physiotherapist to do any work on it as he says he may injure the nerves further. I am now left with and ugly disformity on the top of my foot, unable to have it out in the sun for 2 yrs and even then won't be able to wear nice open shoes as the scar covers 3/4 of the top of my foot. I am having ongoing excruciating pain and am virtually housebound and becoming quite depressed due to this and only get out when going to medical appointments or if my friends are free to take me out as cant afford taxis etc. I have been advised to seek medical misadventure. How do I go about this????
7 minutes ago - 4 days left to answer.
Katlady
Call a personal injury attorney, just get one with an ad in the phonebook. They should take your case for free until you get a settlement, and they should pay all your expenses, which will later be deducted from the award. Sounds like you have grounds to sue.
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Title: No Suit for `Risk of Negligence' Under EMTALA.(Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act)(Brief Article)
Author: A. David Tammelleo
Publication: Hospital Law's Regan Report (Newsletter)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: Medica Press, Inc.
Volume: 41 Issue: 4 Page: 1
Article Type: Brief Article
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No Suit for `Risk of Negligence' Under EMTALA.(Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act)(Brief Article): An article from: Hospital Law's Regan Report
Orignal From: I got a 2nd degree burn to my foot due to a drs negligence. Am I able to apply for medical misadventure in NZ?
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