Deadly MDs

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Sometimes it seems when you go to the worlds medical experts,
They make a lot of mistakes and the innocent patient is hurt.
This poems describes such a case that is dear to my heart.
And resulted in the death of my Dad which was so very hard.

 

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Deadly MDs

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In the summer of 2000, I got a very serious phone call from my dad,
He told me they had found an enlarged Aorta Artery which was bad.
A few years before I had an enlarged Aorta Artery that ruptured,
And had emergency surgery to repair it before I was cured.

 

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We made a trip out to Fritch to talk directly to him in first party,
Since I had read about a non-invasive procedure to repair the artery.
I called the Phoenix Heart Institute and they needed tests run before,
So we had a heart cath run locally , and sent the results to their door.

 

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They sent us a reply and scheduled his procedure in November.
My brother Craig and wife Rhonda went too as I remember.
The first week he was in Phoenix, they did another heart cath,
As it seems they didn’t look at the same test mailed in his behalf.

 

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When they were in doing the test he had already had done,
They poked a hole in the artery and had no idea there was one.
He bled internally for a couple of days and got so very ill that date.
When they finally figured out what they had done, it was too late.

 

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He was so weak when they repaired the leak he couldn’t breathe alone.
So they put him on a respirator, while he laid there and moaned.
He seemed to be so sick that he didn’t even want to move much.
And seemed lost to the whole world and completely out of touch.

 

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After two weeks I flew down to take over for Rhonda and Craig,
And got the story of the incompetence with the artery in his leg.
I took over the watch for this very sick man that we all called Dad.
And recorded the daily events that just kept getting so very bad.

 

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Dad had to get his strength back before he could get the procedure.
After I was there one day, I saw a large pool of blood on the floor there.
I  got the nurse and she stopped the IV then mopped up the mess.
A poorly installed IV had back flowed 20% of his blood she confessed.

 

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They moved an IV to his neck and in two days he had a blood infection.
Every thing they did seemed to make him go farther into rejection.
After I was there a week, they told me they were moving him away,
To another hospital in town to continue his recovery during his stay.

 

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I think they decided then that he would die from their incompetence.
And moved him so their recovery record would not be badly bent.
Pam and I stayed with him suffering so bad the last week of his life,
Which was extremely stressful and put us in some very deep strife.

 

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The Phoenix Heart Institute killed our Dad, this I do surely know,

We worked up a large file describing how they failed our Dad so,
And sent it to lawyers because we wanted to sue for stupid mistakes.
Lawyers said for an 86 year old man, the case they would not take.

 

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By Bill

 

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Thanks for reading Deadly MDs,
Bill