BleedGopher
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I hope he’s doing much better now.
But Sherels had an allergic reaction after he was tested for blood in his stool
Ok. He had most of his colon removed due to this condition and can’t eat solid food, and can’t get enough nutrition from a liquid diet. Everyone, everyone who has had this procedure is in the same predicament. I have two friends with the same issue. There is no current medical prognosis that is different.
You can mock me all you want, but I have personal experience with this.
I have great respect and great compassion for Mike. It is very sad.
Ok. He had most of his colon removed due to this condition and can’t eat solid food, and can’t get enough nutrition from a liquid diet. Everyone, everyone who has had this procedure is in the same predicament. I have two friends with the same issue. There is no current medical prognosis that is different.
You can mock me all you want, but I have personal experience with this.
I have great respect and great compassion for Mike. It is very sad.
Great guy, great addition to the University, and he gets treated like this where he has to be paid 1 million dollars to recover for probably a life time issue. Hopefully it will cover his expenses as I haven't a clue what happen.
Does the article say what the U did incorrectly? I'm not saying they didn't do anything wrong, I just am not seeing any discussion of the issue. It's sad nonetheless, I'm just curious.
Does the article say what the U did incorrectly? I'm not saying they didn't do anything wrong, I just am not seeing any discussion of the issue. It's sad nonetheless, I'm just curious.
I think the point is that we will never know, and that's how the hospital wants it. My guess is an NDA and forgoing any lawsuits will, they hope, prevent any kind of malpractice details from getting out into the public.
The truth is they may not have actually done anything wrong. Juries are quite sympathetic to people that have things that affect the quality of life down the road. It may have been that any reasonable hospital would have done the exact same things in the exact same order and he would have ended up the same. All it takes is saying "they should have seen this" and getting the jury to buy into that to lose a lot more than a million. Additionally, since he was employed by the U at the time this started, part (or all) of the settlement may be based on things in his contract (buyout, not renewing when sick, etc.) more so than malpractice.
It also could be that a million dollar settlement was "cheaper" than the damaged reputation, extra court costs, etc. of going to trial. I'm sure they have an actuary that runs the numbers and determines a settlement on any potential case.
But yes, we likely will never know unless there is some finding from an internal audit that becomes public.
In the end, I wish him the absolute best. Like everyone else on here, I hope there's some cure soon for him and everyone else with this condition.