Letter To A Patient

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The incident that brings me to write this letter of concern and complaint happened on Friday, June 3, 2016. I was not available to visit my dad that morning but my mother went to visit him around 10:00 am, when she arrived she was shocked at the condition he was in, his arms and legs were twitching so badly (due to severe neuropathy) and he complained that his back hurt so much (due to the six back operations) he was in such pain that he did not know where to put himself. He told my mother that he kept asking for his medication and was being told that he was getting his medication. Dr. Piotrowski and her group came into the room for morning rounds, my dad asked her why he has not been getting his medications, she told him that he has been getting …show more content…

My dad told her that he knew that he was not getting his medication and was told once again that he was. My mother told me that a nurse looked at his records and said that he had only been getting insulin and a medication for his nausea. They looked at the doctor and asked why my father had not been getting his normal medication, he is on eighteen medications daily, the nurse said that they did not have orders for other medications. During this my mother heard someone in the group with Dr. Piotrowski comment that “well, it’s only one day”, meaning one day without medication is ok ? My father has several chronic and serious medical conditions and is on multiple medications daily, methadone being one of them, the thought that it would be acceptable for a professional to say that missing one day of these eighteen medications is ok, is ludicrous! For my father to go one day, never mind 36 hours, without even his baseline medications is reckless at best. My mother was so furious that she asked to speak to whoever was in charge, she was told that …show more content…

Upon entering my dad’s hospital room I thought that could easily guess what the problem was, he was obviously in a great deal of pain and his neuropathy was probably the worst I’ve seen it. I asked him how long he had been like that and he told me since the night before. I then saw my mom and how angry and upset she was and I asked her what happened she told me that my dad had not received any of his normal medications since he was at home some 36 hours earlier, that since he was admitted they only been giving him his insulin. After the shock and disbelief of something like this happening in a hospital that we have trusted and defended for the past fifty years, I asked her how they knew this, through tears and anger she told me what had just unfolded with Dr. Piotrowski and her team. She told me that they were waiting for Dr. Gutierrez to come in and talk with us, we

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