[ntnychik]

Funny, I read the first sentence and thought she could have blood clots. I have no medical background.

[SargeK]

The poor woman knew she was dying. The doctors just didn't want to deal with her. They probably interpreted it as drug-seeking behavior. Drug-seekers can be very loud and persistent. A person who knows she dying might be loud and persistent too. Without tests, I can imagine it is difficult to tell if someone has a deep vein thrombosis as it appears she did.

Not excusing - you never just turn someone away who had the history she did of a leg injury (sketchy though the details are in this report). I've dealt with a couple of cases where people were discharged without proper care and subsequently died of a thrombosis or embolism. I've had at least two where they died in the hospital from clots - all of them as a consequence of some lower extremity injury.

[potlatch]

Disgraceful what happened to her, and it would take a ‘coldness of heart’ to think otherwise.

My own grandmother lay in bed one night with terrible pain in one leg. It was a blood clot and she ended up losing her leg.

[calex59]

Funny, I read the first sentence and thought she could have blood clots. I have no medical background.

Possibly because you are aware, as am I, that pain in the legs and inability to move them correctly are a sign of blood clots. It could have been something else but for the doctors not to heed these symptoms and run an MRI on her is criminal. The biggest danger of blood clots of any area is their breaking loose and going to the lungs to form a pulmonary embolism, almost a certain death sentence.