That reminds me of a story my mom used to tell me about her cousin. H'd fallen off his bike and broken his leg. So the local hospital slapped some plaster on it, not worrying about the fact that there were several huge wounds on the leg. He was supposed to be in the hospital for a week or three.
Except the kid keeps complaining about the pain in his leg, but the hospital staff shrug it off and basically tell him to suck it up. After a week his dad basically kidnaps him to another, bigger hospital, where they cut away the plaster to discover the kid's leg's infected with gangreen. They managed to save his leg, but it was a close call. A day later and he'd have lost it.
MOral of the stories: small town hospitals -- bad idea.
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Date: 2001-09-02 05:53 am (UTC)That reminds me of a story my mom used to tell me about her cousin. H'd fallen off his bike and broken his leg. So the local hospital slapped some plaster on it, not worrying about the fact that there were several huge wounds on the leg. He was supposed to be in the hospital for a week or three.
Except the kid keeps complaining about the pain in his leg, but the hospital staff shrug it off and basically tell him to suck it up. After a week his dad basically kidnaps him to another, bigger hospital, where they cut away the plaster to discover the kid's leg's infected with gangreen. They managed to save his leg, but it was a close call. A day later and he'd have lost it.
MOral of the stories: small town hospitals -- bad idea.