Friday, December 18, 2015

Did Hospitals Kill Her Mom? - The Daily Beast

Over the course of her lifetime, Paula Schulte survived painful scoliosis that contorted her spine, a head injury that left her in a coma for weeks, and cancer that cost her part of a lung.

What she couldn't survive was 11 weeks in Florida hospitals.

Schulte, 64, was living an engaged life—staying in touch daily with her daughter, Stephanie Sinclair, a photojournalist, and taking afternoon drives with her husband, Joe. When she suffered an unexpected bout of seizures in August 2012, doctors said she would need only a short hospital stay until the drugs kicked in to remedy things.

Instead, her treatment triggered a cascade of medical mistakes.

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