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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:38 PM ESTCategory: On The Road, Major Medical, Protecting Your Family
Tags: Maritime Law, Cruise Lines, Heart Attack, Emergency Medicine
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IMAGE SOURCE: KOMO-TV, Seattle/ Don and Marlene Bryce/ Courtesy, KOMO-TV reporter Liz Rocca |
It was supposed to be a dream cruise. Don and Marlene Bryce were celebrating Don’s retirement and their 53 years as a married couple. They decided to take a cruise and settled upon Holland America’s ship, “Rotterdam.”
Eight days into the cruise, Don became ill. Marlene called the ship’s doctor, Dr. Mark Gibson who gave Don medicine for vomiting. But Don continued to get worse. Marlene called for a nurse to see her husband. But medical records show when she came, the nurse did not take vital signs. Instead, she took Don’s temperature and gave him more medicine to stop the diarrhea and vomiting.
And one more thing- she told Marlene that they were quarantined to the room.
A reporter for KOMO television in Seattle, Liz Rocca, put together the chronology of events from medical records.
Don kept getting worse and Marlene asked for medical help four times. The next morning she called Dr. Gibson again because her husband was weak, confused and was coughing. Give him more medicine the doctor told her.
Don kept going downhill, so much so, that Marlene went to the infirmary to plead with the doctor to see Don. Dr. Gibson told her he would come the next morning because “he didn’t have the time.” The doctor’s notes reveal that Don was improving. He certainly was not....
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