A wrong diagnosis made a patient shudder: the doctor’s letter mentioned diseases such as Alzheimer’s or kidney failure. The man was treated for a broken thigh bone at the regional hospital in Baden in Lower Austria.
What is wrong with the hospital in Baden? Anita K. wants to get to the bottom of this question. For the native Kottingbrunner, the ‘setbacks’ she has experienced are difficult to understand. After her husband suffered a broken thigh bone in an accident at work, he was operated on in hospital and the fracture was stabilized with nails. After recovery, the 55-year-old returned to his daily work.
But a short time later, Markus K. complained of severe pain. He was seen again at the Baden State Hospital. After an X-ray, the certainty is: “There is a nail fracture at the level of the femoral neck, unsatisfactory wound healing and loosening of the distal screw”, according to the doctor’s letter. “Something must have gone wrong during the first operation”, says Anita K., who also reports material defects.
Her husband underwent surgery again in mid-June and the screws were removed. On June 20, he was discharged from inpatient care and returned to home care. In the luggage: a doctor’s note with astonishing content – at least from the patient’s perspective. Because when he received the diagnosis, the 55-year-old was scared and worried. Everything from Alzheimer’s to kidney failure and a pacemaker, you can read here.
A case for the patient advocate
“How can something like this happen?” K. says worriedly. Only after repeated requests in the hospital did the patient finally receive the new findings by mail on August 29. “I just think it’s a disgrace,” the woman said. The case is now with the patient advocate.
“Unfortunately, there was an incorrect entry, but this had no effect. The actual diagnoses were never ‘suppressed’ or replaced,” says the state health service. The incorrect entry was corrected. The discharge letters that were subsequently given to the patient were always correct. A material defect is also rejected.
Source: Krone
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