- 01 May 2023 22:20
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Parents paid $15 million by hospital for baby's death
For those wondering why medical care in U.S. hospitals are so expensive, this is part of the reason: legal liability. Excessive legal liability and lawsuits.
Some mistakes are going to be made in hospitals. This is tragic and unfortunate but to some extent inevitable. And if a court of law orders the hospital to pay out a huge amount of money for each of these mistakes, someone is going to be paying for that, and it is ultimately going to raise the prices for everyone else.
Parents gave birth to a child, who was born with an abnormally enlarged skull and dwarfism. The baby spent time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (that's for newborn babies who have some medical issue and are struggling to survive, unfortunately many of them don't make it).
Doctors discovered the baby had sleep apnea, which causes breathing interruptions during sleep, and can also cause a child to have trouble breathing while strapped into a car seat.
Breathing problems can be common for babies born with achondroplasia because they are typically born with larger heads. The babies lack the strength to hold their heads up, causing them to hang forward which can disrupt their airways.
As one of the tests, a doctor and hospitals workers put the child into a car seat, attaching electronic sensor monitors to the child, to see if being in a car seat would cause trouble breathing.
Apparently the child was left without oxygen for 20 minutes, after the hospital workers were distracted by what they believed to be an equipment malfunction and failed to properly monitor the child's breathing and heartbeat during the study.
The lack of oxygen resulted in catastrophic brain injury.
After that incident the child spent 12 days on life support before the parents made the decision to end care and let the child die after no signs of improvement were seen.
The parents sued and got a $15 million settlement payment from the hospital.
The parents got a huge amount of money because some hospital workers made a mistake and their child died. Even though that child died due to medical issues a normal child would not have.
The only reason hospitals and businesses pay out gigantic amounts of money in settlements is because they fear it could be even more expensive for them if they don't.
Did the parents really deserve money for the death of their child?
Did they "deserve" this much money?
How much will the costs for other hospital patients go up to pay for this?
Do some math. If this even happens to 0.1% of babies in this situation, that's going to add on $15,000 to every family's bill. Just to pay for the risk of legal liability.
This is insane, illogical, and stupid.
Parents awarded $15m after son with dwarfism killed in Boston hospital sleep study, The Independent, Graig Graziosi, 2023
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 30441.html
incident happened in 2022 at Boston Children's Hospital, parents Becky and Ryan Kekula, child's name Jackson.
For those wondering why medical care in U.S. hospitals are so expensive, this is part of the reason: legal liability. Excessive legal liability and lawsuits.
Some mistakes are going to be made in hospitals. This is tragic and unfortunate but to some extent inevitable. And if a court of law orders the hospital to pay out a huge amount of money for each of these mistakes, someone is going to be paying for that, and it is ultimately going to raise the prices for everyone else.
Parents gave birth to a child, who was born with an abnormally enlarged skull and dwarfism. The baby spent time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (that's for newborn babies who have some medical issue and are struggling to survive, unfortunately many of them don't make it).
Doctors discovered the baby had sleep apnea, which causes breathing interruptions during sleep, and can also cause a child to have trouble breathing while strapped into a car seat.
Breathing problems can be common for babies born with achondroplasia because they are typically born with larger heads. The babies lack the strength to hold their heads up, causing them to hang forward which can disrupt their airways.
As one of the tests, a doctor and hospitals workers put the child into a car seat, attaching electronic sensor monitors to the child, to see if being in a car seat would cause trouble breathing.
Apparently the child was left without oxygen for 20 minutes, after the hospital workers were distracted by what they believed to be an equipment malfunction and failed to properly monitor the child's breathing and heartbeat during the study.
The lack of oxygen resulted in catastrophic brain injury.
After that incident the child spent 12 days on life support before the parents made the decision to end care and let the child die after no signs of improvement were seen.
The parents sued and got a $15 million settlement payment from the hospital.
The parents got a huge amount of money because some hospital workers made a mistake and their child died. Even though that child died due to medical issues a normal child would not have.
The only reason hospitals and businesses pay out gigantic amounts of money in settlements is because they fear it could be even more expensive for them if they don't.
Did the parents really deserve money for the death of their child?
Did they "deserve" this much money?
How much will the costs for other hospital patients go up to pay for this?
Do some math. If this even happens to 0.1% of babies in this situation, that's going to add on $15,000 to every family's bill. Just to pay for the risk of legal liability.
This is insane, illogical, and stupid.
Parents awarded $15m after son with dwarfism killed in Boston hospital sleep study, The Independent, Graig Graziosi, 2023
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 30441.html
incident happened in 2022 at Boston Children's Hospital, parents Becky and Ryan Kekula, child's name Jackson.
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