| Chocoholic |
| OK I find this really really shocking! Someone I know was involved in a biking accident recently, he came off and hit his head - he was wearing all the right safety gear, but had a hard peaked hat which jarred his head and neck. He got taken to the American Hospital as he was in severe pain and couldn't move. They tried to make him get up three times saying he'd pulled all the muscles in his neck and had bruising. His parents weren't happy and took him to the Neuro spinal hospital where they discovered he's actually broken his neck!!!! Any sudden movement could have killed him instantly! How the hell do you miss that?! He now has a head brace to stop him moving and should make a full recovery. But I'm appalled by this. |
| Dubai Knight |
| Hi Chocs, I had 2 cracked vertebrae and 2 compressed discs in an accident many years ago (apart from a few other broken things!) and the doctors in the UK missed them as well. A hairline fracture in the 1st to 5th. cervical vertebrae can sometimes be very hard to spot, according to the doctors who treated me. The bones tend to be held together by the muscles after fracture and only a severe fracture where bone is dislodged or the vertebrae become misaligned, can be spotted clearly. Extreme misalignment at this height in the spine can often be fatal or result in a quadraplegic or tetraplegic condition. No matter how it heals, he is going to be suffering the rest of his life I am afraid. The subsequent problems it will probably create are going to be muscular spasm and pain down the arms and across the shoulders. Massage is the best therapy... I really, really sympathise. :( Knight |
| Chocoholic |
| DK, the thing I find most shocking is that they were trying to forcibly make him stand up and move about when he obviously couldn't and was in agony. Like I said if one of the docs or other staff had jolted him, he would have been dead! |
| MaaaD |
| i dont understand why the healthcare standards in the UAE are rubbish. Can someone in the field explain ? |
| XRW-147 |
| Chocs, thats a pretty ghastly mistake to make. Medical professionals - pfft! |
| arniegang |
| I am gobsmacked at this. Even for a basic "first - aider" in work etc, the advice is that if a neck injury is even micro suspect, you DO NOT move the casualty. There are NO exceptions to this. |
| Palkid7 |
The answer is simple, as long as u can't blame a doctor for a wrong treatment or take the case to court !! then they (doctors) feel like they can't be touched !!! so mistakes all over the place. :x :x |
| MaaaD |
| I am sure thats one factor lionheart. But i feel like compensation here might not be up to par to what a doctor say in the USA might make ? Because logically we are in proximity to the country that produces some of the most skilled doctors around the world (India). Yet they probably would much rather go to the US and/or UK where they can get higher pay and chances of getting the countries passport. While here they will get second class treatment and never get the chance to get the countries passport. just my 2 fils. |
| Concord |
| All that is needed are 100 very competent lawyers to send a message that unless you are competent as a doctor, etc. your next commute to work will be in one of those buses without air conditioning and your villa will be a labor camp and your earnings 500 dirham a month. That thought will make you be very careful or... For all the negativity about lawyers (deservedly so in some instances) without them there would be no reason for doctors to think twice or three times about simply butchering people. No doubt about it... All this talk about rising costs due to lawyers: no one complaints about the insurance business. No bigger business in the world bigger than insurance. Think about it (cars, homes, life, professions, business, medical, etc. etc.) |
| Chocoholic |
| Well after being stuck in bed for weeks on end , my friend is now well on the road to recovery. He's started moving around a bit and is going to physio, so hopefully he will make a full recovery. It'll take a long while yet, but he;s young. My only worry is, knowing what a party and adventure freak he is, he'll try to do too much too soon. |
| arniegang |
| Glad it all ended up ok. Tell him to take it very easy and listen to the docs advice DF Doc. |
| Hadick46 |
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| Bleakus |
maybe its the doctor from the american hospitals mistake...i know that rashid hospital are awesome ;) |
| Nick81 |
No idea. But the one thing I know is that if I have the chance I'll go see a doctor, dentist etc etc back in Lebanon. I pray I never get to go to a hospital here for an emergency... |
| zam |
My exact thoughts why Im dying to have some referrals from fellow DF'ers. |
| hardasrock00 |
| In the early part of this topic a question was raised as to how come there are a lot of mistakes committed in the medical field in the UAE. I am not surprised at all based on what I heard and read on the news lately. A man was posing as a certified doctor in the UAE, was able to pass his credentials as authentic with the MOH, and was actually allowed to practice medicine in the UAE. It is only when his colleagues started noticing wrong diagnosis and methods was the alarm raised. Can you imagine if this ompostor operated on you or on your love one? How can this happen, are the rules and regulations in the medical field in the UAE that lax? Scary..... :cry: opn a personal note: My mother had her appendix out, within a couple of days she was suffering from severe stomach pains. One night her wound from the operaiton suddenly burst and foul smelling blood spurted out (pls. excuse the description). We had to rush her to the hospital or else she would have been poisoned by the rotten blood. There was something wrong with the initial operation which caused an infection and the actual stiches were not done right. Guess which hospital??? Rashid.....<------ |
| emurella |
| had a car accident on boxing day and was taken o the american hospital for xrays as they thought i had broken my shoulder the xrays didn't show it and they said i could go back to work. i was in alot of pain but went bac as i was told i did a flightat new year and had to dead head back i went to a different doc who gave me an ultrasound to check inside my shoulder which showed i had torn the tendons as a result i am going back to work for the first time tomorrow and have been off all month having psyiso. why they didn't check the muscle that day is beyond me and clould have saved me alot of pain. i know it's not as bad as a broken neck but yet another mistake by the america hospital |
| gtmash |
Are you kidding? I interned with a medical equipment supply firm, and I heard first-hand accounts of them killing people thru stupidity. |
| xty |
IMHO there are so many doctors in Dubai's American/European/International/whatever hospitals who are just instant doctors who might be just graduated. Proudly put all their EU/UK/US degrees in the business card and place of practice. Hijacked by hospital businessmen to build instant hospitals/clinics. But sometimes can't investigate even a simple disease (in fact the patient itself tells the disease). I've seen many times in some of these hospitals and I can tell if they are experienced or not. |