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Duke Raleigh Hospital malpractice

Hello I'm reaching out because im having a hard time getting answers about my son death. As to why didn't they try to do anything to help my 5 year old sick boy. I've been fighting them for 6 months now. He was brought into the emergency room on August 31. They did a Covid, RSV, and flu test on him and all of that came back negative. Then they let them sit for hours and brought discharge papers. They wasn’t gonna treat him. He came in with a fever and vomiting. My son had a rare brain tumor. Which was already documented within the Duke system that they didn't bother to look at during that time. I got to the hospital and when we got in the back room around 3am. Between 3am - 6am, the only thing they did was those 3 test. They didn’t do any other labs or anything anything, even after I mentioned his medical history to them. They then brought discharge papers after a child came in vomiting with a fever and with his tumor that’s a sign that is growing. I kept telling the doctor over and over he’s sick he’s sick. He has a tumor when this stuff happens, That means it’s growing. Can you check his tumor? Meanwhile, Duke Raleigh couldn’t do anything for my baby until about 11 o’clock that day When Duke Durham called and told them to do this and that I was told in the beginning that. I was told that my son couldn’t be cared for at Duke Raleigh because it wasn’t a pediatric hospital, but when Durham called they all of a sudden became qualified. The same doctor told me my son was a cutie pie. Per his doctors at Duke Durham, they as asked for him to be air lifted and it was denied because they said he wasnt in critical condition. They didn’t know he wasn’t in critical condition because they hadn't done any further testing at that point. They finally started doing test close to his last moments. We found out at 5:45 minutes before he died that he didn’t have any white blood cell count and all of a sudden, my son just goes into a heart attack. Now, at the time on August 31 they told me he died from meningitis that the infection caused the heart attack. True of my son was on a clinical trial, which caused his heart to weaken causing the heart attack. But my thing is instead of this doctor telling me he worked in Chicago, His brother worked at Chop, and all his personal information before Durham called, he was just sitting there talking about his life as if I wasn’t there with a sick child as if my child wasn’t sleeping from 3 AM to 7 AM. A 5 year old who is full of life full of energy just sleeping and I’m telling him he’s not OK he’s not OK. But nobody listened. Until another hospital told him to do the very same thing I asked him to do. He didn’t deserve it and I don’t want this to happen to nobody else’s child. They push him to the side and don’t give her child treatment because they have to get approval from another hospital. At end the day after the autopsy was done after his funeral I finally had a heart attack from the clinical trial, but my thing is, had they tried to work on him between three and the time he passed away, before the doctor called at 11, they would have known that he actually was in critical condition. If they tried that morning when I was fussing begging. I couldn’t know why he died before I buried my child but I did I had to find out the real reason after it was a lot of carelessness with him please help me keep your goddamn name of life. Please help me don’t let them forget how they didn’t treat him properly or do the things that they should’ve done. They didn’t follow a standard protocol either. When we got there with vomiting he was supposed to get an IV and he never received the IV/fluids until another hospital told him to. They never did labs until another hospital told him to this don’t sit right with me. Now he's lying and stating that I never asked to speak with him. That doctor’s name is Keith Tatka at duke raleigh! PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE THIS HAS BEEN HARD! HELP ME GET THIS OUT THERE I DONT WANT NOBODY ELSE LOOSING A CHILD...

Last night I had the scariest night of my life I have hypertension (bad blood pressure-) and my left arm started to go numb and my neck and shoulder started hurting and my right eye would not stop twitching I tried to calm myself down til my boyfriend got home to take me to the hospital which was probably stupid for trying to wait on him also my eye sight was getting poor blurry and I left like things were beginning to kinda have a wavey visual and the only thing I could think other then actually having a heart attack was the fact that my “friend” had offered me a drink of something that she had brought to my house. The night before. After being completely honest that I had taken some of her drink and wasn’t exactly sure what it was I EVEN ASKED THEM TO DRUG TEST ME. they completely did a 360 and started treating me completely different they kept making little remarks trying to say I was a drug addict or something and was pain or anxiety med fishing. I am currently prescribed kpins so why tf would I need to waste my time going for pills AND IM ON SUBOXONE so I can’t take pain meds ! Even after they did an ekg my blood pressure was about 230/120 at one time and also said I was having heart palpitations they said that I was just having a panic attack and was overreacting: I have been clean off of drugs for about 7 years and have never felt the way I did I really thought i was dying about 30 minutes later it got so bad I had to call someone for help. I was home alone and didn’t want someone to find me like that. After I get into the ambulance and then get to the hospital it was all whispers and no one was taking me seriously. I currently get drug tested 1-3 times month for personal reasons and haven’t been dirty in years . It got to the point that every single person I came into contact with thought it was a joke: I came to you guys for help and you made it out to be a joke. I was literally in the back of the ambulance crying l didn’t want to die at 2am: I have never been treated like this in my life. Then I decided to go outside to cal my family and tell them what’s happening and I did smoke a cigg and the guys who were in the EMS with me start talking extremely loud about me saying that I was pathetic and rediculous and was just pretending now she’s over there smoking a cigg and biting her nails. like I didn’t hear then that I ended up booking an Uber to go home bc I was so uncomfortable being around any staff I was so embarrassed that I even trusted you guys with my life. If I would have put any drugs willingly into my body I would have said so I am not scared to do that. so you could have helped me . I’m an ex drug addict over 7 years so what you’re telling me if someone who actually did drugs you’d sit and laugh and think they were pathetic ? That is the craziest and most unprofessional thing I have ever had to go through. Now I’m scared next time something’s really gonna be wrong with me I’m not gonna want to go to the hospital thanks for traumatizing...

My mom was taken to Duke Raleigh hospital in april to deal with immense blockage in her colon. I was there to witness my mom fighting for 6 days where the hospital kept giving her golytely and saying everything was going to be fine. The constant regimen of that for 6 days put my mom in immense pain and suffering. I got a front row seat to her being in more pain than child birth. My mom is a terminator and I watched the pain break her. The nurses and doctors assured me this was normal. I was asking questions and did my best not to get kicked out of the hospital. The hospital inserted a gastral tube to help relieve pressure and that ended up getting some stomach acid in my mom's lungs. I was there when the night time doctor ran in and figured out that she had perforation in her colon and fecal matter was leaking into her body on day 6-7. They had to take X-rays before inserting the tube and that's how the nighttime doctor noticed the damage. I signed the paperwork for an emergency operation that night. I'll never forget that feeling of doom when the doctor said if they didn't operate now my mom would die. My mom was x-rayed multiple times and they didn't find the real problem until it was too late. My mom's heart stopped that night. The doctors were able to revive her for another day and a half while she was in the ICU. She passed away in the hospital and it broke my spirit. My mom was the nicest, most selfless, innocent person I've ever known. She didn't deserve any of that pain. She dedicated her life to helping other people, she didn't want money, fame or power. All she wanted was a family. I feel like the hospital didn't treat my mom's case with the care they should have since duke gave her a heart transplant 8 years prior and I was under the impression that they were ready to help my mom when something was wrong. We should have transferred my mom to the big duke in Durham when we had the chance. I feel like the nurses, doctors and everyone else involved didn't put the time into finding the problem in time and it cost my mom her life. I brought this to the attention of dee grant of duke Raleigh risk management and they gave us a run around eventually saying they think the hospital did everything right. I still can't fathom my mom passing away.

Cherish your loved ones, spoil your parents and follow your passion. Life is so short. You're rich if your parents are in your life. Call your parents and tell them how much you love them every day. I lost the best person I've ever known in the...