What the hell difference does it make why he was jailed? Are you suggesting that a prisoner’s alleged crimes have ANY role in deciding whether he should receive urgent medical treatment?
Wrong. Appendicits is “stab in the gut painful” only when pressure is directly applied to the abdomen. Otherwise it feels like a bad bellyache.
Then the staff physician is incompetent. Patients USUALLY say “stomach” or “belly” rather than “lower abdomen”, any experienced practicing physician won’t be mislead by that phrasing. And ruling out appendicitis is mandatory any time a patient complains of belly pain.
He DID complain, stating repeatedly that he felt very sick. The negligence lies with the medical personnel who never even bothered to properly evaluate him to detemine if his complaints might be serious.
A person who is dying of septic shock looks nothing like a person with a bad case of the flu.
What difference does it make what type of nurse she was? All she had to do was say that in her professional opinion, the kid needed to be seen by a physician. She didn’t do that - quite the opposite, in fact.
Irrelevant, since what was required was simply a basic physical examination and then transport to the local emergency room when it became clear that acute appendicits was in the differential diagnosis.
She obviously didn’t do even a half-assed physical examination, or she would have known the kid had an acute abdomen. And she’s supposed to be doing her own assesment, not simply relying on an earlier one performed by someone else.
She screwed up, big time, and a kid died because of that mistake.
No, they did not. That’s the problem.
