{"id":3899,"date":"2010-10-20T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T11:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2010-10-20T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T11:52:27","slug":"medical-negligence-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/10\/20\/medical-negligence-gone-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Negligence Gone Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/hospital-madness-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hospital-madness\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3907\" \/>OK, so not so much of an original topic given my last blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/10\/19\/road-traffic-accidents-when-madness-is-the-cause\/\">road accident madness<\/a>. But the \u201cmadness\u201d theme spreads across all walks of life, and all forms of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/personal-injury-claims.php\">claims for personal injury<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. As a <strong><em>specialist firm of personal injury experts<\/em><\/strong>, we take on all sorts of claims, given the sheer volume of cases we take on daily; and sometimes we genuinely have to ask ourselves &#8211; \u201chow was this allowed to happen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Health and safety laws, rules, and regulations are there for very good and very sensible reasons \u2013 to <strong><em>prevent people from coming to harm<\/em><\/strong>. Never mind what the ConDems say about \u201celf and safety gawn mad\u201d, if you follow the practices and procedures in place, no one should come to harm. So when people and companies break rules and regulations to such extents that their actions can be classed as \u201cmad\u201d, you do have to ask yourself how on earth they managed to break the rules so tremendously bad.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I tend to class some of the more simple rules broken as madness. For example, <strong><em>councils failing to inspect and maintain their jurisdiction of highway<\/em><\/strong> on a regular basis. It only needs to be done every 3 \u2013 12 months or so, dependant on the use of the road or pathway. A simple inspection can identify defects, and workman can be contracted to repair them. It <strong><em>seems basic enough to me<\/em><\/strong>. But there are still highways authorities that fail to follow the rules \u2013 meaning claims can be brought against them.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Work places \u2013 the rules and regulations they must follow are strict and plentiful \u2013 so why employers break them on a seemingly continuous basis can be somewhat dumbfounding. For example, all employees using dangerous tools and equipment, or undertaking manual handling tasks, must have <strong><em>training<\/em><\/strong> on how to use the equipment and do the tasks safely. There must be <strong><em>emergency stop buttons<\/em><\/strong> on machinery, <strong><em>personal protective equipment<\/em><\/strong> to stop peoples\u2019 limbs from being exposed to harm, training on safe lifting techniques with the right amount of people assisting in the task \u2013 it\u2019s all basic stuff.<\/p>\n<p>So <strong><em>why do people break the rules?<\/em><\/strong> You\u2019d think that employers and companies responsible for the safety of others would want to ensure they do not cause anyone to come to harm. I know I certainly would! The <strong><em>consequences can be serious<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 so here\u2019s a real life story of <strong><em>the cost a stupid mistake can have<\/em><\/strong> on the victims involved.<\/p>\n<p>In this real life example (and a <strong><em>very traumatic<\/em><\/strong> example of the consequences stupidity can have on a victims life), according to sources from The Sun (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/3184906\/Glove-left-in-patient.html\">http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/3184906\/Glove-left-in-patient.html<\/a>), trucker Wayne Williams\u2019 operation to help him breathe better left him with a voice like the late singer Barry White when <strong><em>surgeons left a latex glove in his throat!<\/em><\/strong> The report goes on to say that he was gasping for air when he awoke from the operation at London\u2019s St George&#8217;s Hospital; and he was told by staff that he was fine! Yes \u2013 <strong><em>fully qualified surgeons actually left a glove inside a patient!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A whole <strong><em>year later, a scan revealed the glove<\/em><\/strong> inside the patient, which has <strong><em>scarred his vocal chords<\/em><\/strong>. The article unfortunately doesn\u2019t provide much further information, other than confirming that, understandably, this <strong><em>monumental error has ruined the victims\u2019 life<\/em><\/strong>, and has left him <strong><em>unable to work<\/em><\/strong>. He has reportedly settled a <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/medical-negligence-claims.php\">claim for medical negligence<\/a> against the hospital trust for \u00a3350,000.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an awful and, quite honestly mind-boggling, story to hear about. How on earth a qualified team of medical attendants managed to leave a latex glove inside a patient is <strong><em>unbelievable<\/em><\/strong>. These people will have gone through years and years of rigorous education to get to the positions they are in \u2013 yet they can\u2019t even stop a glove from being left inside a patient after an operation. It certainly doesn\u2019t leave me with much confidence in the NHS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so not so much of an original topic given my last blog about road accident madness. But the \u201cmadness\u201d theme spreads across all walks of life, and all forms of claims for personal injury. As a specialist firm of personal injury experts, we take on all sorts of claims, given the sheer volume of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/10\/20\/medical-negligence-gone-mad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medical Negligence Gone Mad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Medical Negligence Gone Mad<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinjurylawyers.co.uk\/injury-lawyers-blog\/2010\/10\/20\/medical-negligence-gone-mad\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Medical Negligence Gone Mad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"OK, so not so much of an original topic given my last blog about road accident madness. 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