Hi all.
I lost my mom this week. It's been brutal. She was my solid home base and it feels like the rug has been pulled out from under me.
We are a few days out from everything happening at this point and I can't shake the feeling that some of the circumstances around her passing, from the care she received to the doctor's decision to transfer her to a different hospital when she was possibly not stable enough to move, deserve more scrutiny. Has anyone gone down this road before? If so, what is the process? Do I request an autopsy? Do I speak to an attorney?
I have no idea if this is stuck in my head because it is a legit concern or if I'm trying to make all of this make sense as some kind of coping mechanism. But the thought popped into my head almost immediately after I got the call from the hospital that they had lost her (20 minutes after she landed after being transferred from hospital A to hospital B) a few nights ago. I despise the over litigious world we live in at times, but I also don't want anyone else to ever feel like this because a doctor wasn't thorough enough in his examination or decision making process for a patient. I also fully admit I'm see-sawing back and forth between the first several stages of grief, so that is also likely effecting my thinking.
I lost my mom this week. It's been brutal. She was my solid home base and it feels like the rug has been pulled out from under me.
We are a few days out from everything happening at this point and I can't shake the feeling that some of the circumstances around her passing, from the care she received to the doctor's decision to transfer her to a different hospital when she was possibly not stable enough to move, deserve more scrutiny. Has anyone gone down this road before? If so, what is the process? Do I request an autopsy? Do I speak to an attorney?
I have no idea if this is stuck in my head because it is a legit concern or if I'm trying to make all of this make sense as some kind of coping mechanism. But the thought popped into my head almost immediately after I got the call from the hospital that they had lost her (20 minutes after she landed after being transferred from hospital A to hospital B) a few nights ago. I despise the over litigious world we live in at times, but I also don't want anyone else to ever feel like this because a doctor wasn't thorough enough in his examination or decision making process for a patient. I also fully admit I'm see-sawing back and forth between the first several stages of grief, so that is also likely effecting my thinking.
