I just got off the phone with a friend. His wife has just emerged from the hospital, one more time. Apparently she would have had less problems over the past year if the 2.5inch piece of plastic tubing had not been lodged in her bronchial tube.
She really didn't need this. She's been feeding through a tube for the past 10 years due to cancer surgery that required radical jawbone and esophageal paring. She never regained her swallow mechanism and the esophagus kept scarring and the trachea narrowing so she has required multiple surgeries to allow her to continue breathing and talking. She has been without effective speech for the past 2 years and on a trach tube. She really did not need this complication and now she has picked up the "MSRA Superbug" as a carrier.
Sometimes, perhaps we overreach ourselves, sometimes we just have a bad day. The tubing left in her from the last surgery is definitely someone's bad day. Looking for a good medical lawyer.