Is there a case to pursue?
Posted on : 25-02-2010 | By : Legal Information | In : Car Accident, Legal Questions, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury
Tags: Car Accident Injury, Medical Malpractice Attorney
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I have just recently had a situation occur that my family is saying I should pursue. I’m not sure what to call it and if there is a case.
I have just been released from the hospital after spending a week there for major chest surgery. A surgery that should have been preformed 5 + years ago due to my car accident and was mistakenly missed, this has had me in different levels of pain ever since.
As soon as a month after the car accident in which i has hit by someone missing a stop sign.
I was dealing with the pain Not he usual “healing”…and being told to “get used to it” it will be there forever. This pain to me was not normal by any means and prevented me from doing so many things in daily life. Simple things such as running to get the newspaper on a cold morning, vacuuming the house, playing with my boys…and so on. I could do these things but I always paid for it in the initial pain and the pain soon after. Sometimes lasting at higher levels for hours to days.
It had been getting worse “Levels of pain and durations” And I have been telling my doctors almost every time we met that it hurts… they always said…. mentally get over it. ((I think they were just sick of me saying it) Lastly!:
I was told as recently as January 18th (Exactly this) ..that the “pain” was in my head. And what I needed to do was to flip a mental switch to resolve it.. I was asking for the 20th+ time for a medication switch, there had to be something else to relieve this chronic pain that this doctor (My Central Doctor, who each other doctor sends his reports to) something else for me, it has been hurting for FIVE YEARS and I Have been complaining for five years to have another look, he just said it would be a waste of an MRI.
This doctor was visibly annoyed and said the following, “David, do you have any idea how many people in this office deal with chronic pain!”
I said that I didn’t care and what I wanted was for the pain to stop. life was and is almost unbearable living with it. He again referred to what he and the others were saying. “get used to it”
Well I finally had enough of it, It hurt and on Feb 15th I went to the emergency room to explain and ended up having emergency surgery that day. The surgeon stated what I was living with had stemmed from my accident and the thought of getting used to it was nonsense. And over time would have done much worse things internally. Why did it take the emergency room to sort things out. (I’m getting my 8 or 9 inches of staples out of my chest next Monday. and I’m sitting here popping Percocet and using a breathing machine)
Guess that “Mental Switch” might not have worked out so well.



