Or, I should have said that JJ, ans her husband, knew what was wrong, but the hospital jerked them along; gave them little to no care and a fat bill. That's the medical mafia.
Oh thats not even my worst story..
I have MS, I was in the middle of a really bad attack. I went to my regular dr and was waiting for my mri appointment in a couple days while i waited the attack got way worse and i had an adverse reaction to the meds my dr gave me for the dizziness/lightheadedness it was the weekend no choice but to go to the er.
Go to the er. Documented history of ms. They decide i dont have ms, im psychotic. I start getting angry, demanding an mri because thats the only test that shows an ms attack. They shot me up with ativan to knock me out because i was agitated. They spent the next 72 hours in between knocking me out with more ativan arguing with my mom that 1) i dont have ms 2) im psychotic 3) they wont treat me at all ubless she signs me into the mental ward and 4) refusing to give me an mri.
On day 3 my mom got in touch with a member of the hospital board of administrators through my fathers neurologist, they rushed me into an mri
Lo and behold i had 3 active lesions on my brain (sorry for being a little nutty my brain was under attack and agitation is a normal reaction to people not lkstebibg to u) and i had to be given iv steroids - which is what i told them immediately upon getting to the hospital.
By the time i left there i couldnt walk talk use my hands swallow etc for months. Had they given me the damn mri and steroids immediately it would have stopped the attack in its tracks and i wouldnt have had half the damage i ended up with. They wouldnt even release me to go to a different hospital because they insisted i was crazy. I wasnt.
Tried to sue and was told by 5 different lawyers unless i lost a limb or died or something medical malpractice was never going to happen.
It definately is like a mafia in many ways