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The Ashley treatment: ‘Her life is as good as we can possibly make it’

In an exclusive email exchange, Ashley’s father talks to Ed Pilkington about his daughter’s condition, her growth attenuation treatment ? and the criticism his family has facedTowards the end of 2006 an endocrinologist in Seattle called Dr Daniel Gunther published an article in the Archives of Pediatrics in which he described a series of medical interventions he had given to a severely disabled child called Ashley.Together with Ashley’s parents, he devised a course of therapy designed to keep the child permanently small. For three years from the age of six, Ashley was administered high doses of the hormone estrogen to bring to a close her growth, effectively freeze-framing her body at the size of a child’s. She was also given a hysterectomy so that she would avoid menstruation, and had h…

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Locksmith Road Tech. Needed – Jersey Shore – Bay Head, NJ

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An early fantasy baseball mock draft, complete with Ryan Braun

Another early fantasy baseball mock for Tim and Nick. What stood out? Who called Ryan Braun’s name? Click here to read the rest…

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A Prime Example Of How Not To Treat An Injured Nursing Home Patient…. Ignoring Them

I’ve got a confession to make.  Sometimes when I’m in my office I make personal calls.  Sometimes I even take time away from my day to forward email chains of perverted jokes to friends.  Other times, I’ll talk with my colleagues about my weekend plans— sometimes even on a Monday.  I’d imagine my style of intermixing personal plans during the course of my workday is fairly normal as many of us spend a good chunk of our waking hours plugging away at our jobs.

Since its my blog, I generously chose to call these daily diversions ‘personal plans’, but surely these could be aptly categorized simply as ‘distractions’.  While for all these mini-distractions I encounter— or create for myself in the course of the day, I would at least like to think that these distractions aren’t really that problematic because I still make doing what needs to be done at my job priority number one.

I began to consider the daily distractions almost all of of face during the course of the day– both at work and at home— when I read about an almost unbelievable episode of extreme nursing home neglect involving staff at a Iowa nursing home.  An internal video shot at All American Restorative Care in Washington, IA depicts what I’d consider to be a situation involving far more than a healthy dose of distraction during a Christmas party at the facility.

The video from the facilities video-monitoring system confirms that over the course of 48 minutes, at least four nursing home employees walked past a patient who had fallen to the floor and struck her head. While two of the employees did have the courtesy to ask the woman if she was ‘ok’, no one actually initiated any follow-up to confirm that her claims were indeed accurate.

An investigation by officials from the state confirmed the rampant distraction— or more accurately– complete neglect of the the patient.  Equally alarming, the state’s investigation revealed that even though the patient appeared to be “pretty out of it” (indicative of a possible head injury), several nursing home staffers elected to bring her back to her room without any neurological assessment.

Approximately 90 minutes after the woman was taken back to her room, staff finally chose to send her to an emergency room where the patient was treated for a laceration to her head. 

Whatever the underlying reasons are for staff literally ignoring an obviously injured patient, their behavior is without excuse and is simply emblematic of an environment where patient needs are ignored.  Particularly with an injury to her head, this patient is truly lucky that her injury wasn’t exacerbated by the distracted— err— grossly neglectful staff members.  Clearly, these people need to be reminded about focusing on their jobs.

Related Nursing Homes Abuse Blog Entries:

Why Do So Many Nursing Home Patients Suffer Fall-Related Injuries When Preventative Techniques Are So Easy To Implement?

Nursing Homes Post-Fall Care Of Injured Patient Criticized By State Investigators

Rapid Decline For Elderly Nursing Home Patients Following Fall-Related Injuries

Falls In Nursing Homes Are A Serious Threat To The Safety Of Many Patients

http://www.nursinghomeinjurylaws.com/common-nursing-home-injuries/falls/

http://www.rosenfeldinjurylawyers.com/practice/nursing-home-injuries/nursing-home-falls/

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What could happen when politics impact fantasy football

I wanted to take a moment to use this platform to advocate against something that is near and dear to me. While political talk can be very divisive, as well as often downright nasty, a current piece of legislation making its way through our United States Congress is threatening the very liberties that make the [...]

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Colt Brennan will run and shoot at Hawai’i in 2007

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