Woman loses limbs and sight due to hospital incompetence

Welcome to America's profit-driven health care system, folks.

This is the system under which a dentist lodged a drill bit in a patient's eye socket because he was dancing to the song "Car Wash" while pulling a tooth. (This happened in 2004 in Syracuse, New York.)

Now a hospital in New York City is being sued for $100,000,000 because of a recent incident that cost a 32-year-old woman her hands, her feet, and much of her sight.

The woman went to the emergency room with abdominal pain symptomatic of a kidney stone. According to her attorney, the hospital sent her back home on a stretcher with no blood test. She promptly developed an infection, and her hands and feet had to be amputated because of gangrene. She is also now legally blind.

The life of a mother who is only 32 is now destroyed because of the sheer greed that defines American's health care system.

This isn't the first time in recent years that something almost exactly like this has happened in America's medical facilities.

Frankly, $100,000,000 probably isn't even enough for something like this. Who's really to blame? It sounds like most of it is indeed the hospital's fault. Perhaps the rest of it is the fault of America's political "leaders" of the past 28 years who have allowed the health care system to disintegrate.

(Source: http://wcbstv.com/local/brooklyn.hospital.lawsuit.2.870802.html)