lawson101

My wife was thrown from her horse recently and had to be taken to A&E to get checked out as she was suffering from back pains and found it difficult to get back up again.

Spent 3hrs with her in the hospital while they checked her over, x-rayed her and administered morphine and other pain killers.

At the end of it all she was sent home with a warning that her back was badly bruised and she should rest for a while but it will be fine.

Two days later the hospital called back to say that they made a mistake and want to see her again as she has fractured/crushed a vertabrae in her spine!!

Seems like someone was going over the x-rays and realised that her 5th or 6th vertabrae has been reduced in size compared to the other ones and now she has to visit the fracture the clinic each week for the next 6 weeks and not to do any heavy impact work.

My question is this - should the fracture not have been noticed straight away or a specialist checked the x-rays before she was discharged? As it was her spine after all and the damage could have been worse, could it not?

stephen.

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Similar thing happened to me, I fell whilst rock climbing and my foot clipped a ledge breaking my ankle in 2 places, I eventually had it x-rayed and they said nowt was wrong, 2 days later I got a call from the hospital asking me to come back in as they had found 2 hairline fractures in my ankle.

They wanted to plaster it but I was picking my new bike up the next days so kindly declined their offer.

These things happen I do not hold them responsibly for overlooking it in the first place, at least they got a 2nd opinion pretty soon though. Nobody is perfect which is why we have 2nd opinions.

Brendan Hughes

Mother in law fell off the bed (yeah, yeah, spare the quips) and damaged her shoulder. We paid maybe €200 for about 5 sessions of physio, which seemed to do little.

Got back from our place to her home, saw her doc, who said "You broke your collar bone".

Spoon

Focus on the fact it has been spotted and not on the fact your wife could have been paralysed, had the fracture come into contact with her spinal cord.

Good luck to her.

Sport160

Quite often happens where there are minor injury clinics, the x-rays are reviewed by a doctor at a later time. I think I was even warned that I might get called back in the following week once a reg or consultant had reviewed the x-ray

Drnaz_2000

yeah often the case.....some xrays are seen by very junior medical staff and not really reviewed until routinely seen by a consultant radiologist

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Fell down some stairs at work a couple of months ago and the hospital assumed that cause I could walk on it it was not worth x raying turned out to be a fracture metatarsal . They do not always know best.

letdown

Yes they are often checked later on by the Dr.

So you can forget that call to "Claims Direct"

ScoobyDoo555

Fractured my elbow - xrays etc. The Doc said "nothing wrong, just bruising. Please take the xrays back to xyz"....

Walking back to xyz, looked at the xray, and to the "untrained eye", even my mum and I could see the break

Didn't overly hurt at the time though..........

Dan

Drnaz_2000

was that confirmed later???? cus there are alot of things that can look like a fracture which arent.

Deep Singh

A friend of mine was decapitated in an accident. Docs in AE said it was just a sprain and sent him home. When he went back and showed them his head in a bag they couldn't look him in the eye

john banks

LOL at Deep.

danwrx1980

Stephen, is your middle name Fleming and your mrs name Sam???

As I know a Scottish bloke (who happens to be a reet C**t who this happened to), I hope I aren't speaking to you, if so forget I spoke.
If you aren't him I hope That your mrs is ok as I wish no one any harm, apart from him and his mrs.....

danwrx1980

I hope you are joking LOLOLOLOL!!!

shaunywrx

lawson101

Not me mate lol

Although I am a reet **** tho

lol @ Deep Singh!!

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

hey where theres a claim there is blame

Iwan

Bloke at a local rugby club was on a stag do up north a while back. At the end of the evening (and after a LOT of beer) he thought he'd help collect some of the glasses for the barstaff, and in doing so slipped on an ice cube and hurt his shoulder. Not to worry, one of the other blokes on the stag do was a doctor (but had consumed a similarly vast amount of ale) so he had a look at mateys shoulder and pronounced it was dislocated and could pop it back in in no time. Cue a bunch of lads holding matey down and "Dr" manouvering his arm around for a few minutes - accompained by a bit of screaming.

Next day, matey wakes up with a horribly shattered shoulder socket and massive bruising. Turns out his shoulder had been broken in a couple of places and the "clinical manouvering" had made it about ten times worse.

Good job he was pi$$ed at the time.

AllanB

Well I had broken ribs and a fructured sternum and didn't even know about it, just though I'd pulled a muscle as it was a bit sore sleeping on my side and when I broke them again in a car crash I had healing fractures that showed up on the xray but only from the side xray and nothing showed up on the frontal xray so it is possible to mis a break of fracture.



AllanB

Deep Singh

Hope your wife is well matey

douglasb

A couple of years back, I tripped and hit my leg on the back step. I thought I'd just twisted my ankle so got in the car next day and drove 350 miles. Hobbled about for the week and returned home on Friday night (obviously another 350 mile drive).

I'd gradually realised during the week that my leg was hurting a bit further up than my ankle so went to the local A&E on Saturday morning. They confirmed that I'd done something to my ankle and took an X-ray to see what else had been done. The answer was a fractured fibula! They didn't bother putting it in plaster as they reckoned that if I'd got around on it for a week without plaster, giving me cruthes for the next few weeks would be sufficient.

ronjeramy

iTrader: (1)

broke a bone in my hand, saw a junior doctor x-rayed it and was told, just badly bruised and swolen, 6 weeks of pain. went to my gp, took one look at it and said it was broken, wrote me a letter for casualty, x-rayed again and saw a quilified doctor who examined the x-ray properly and found a broken skefore(sp), stuck i t in plaster for 2 weeks and now i have a lunp on my hand

ron