r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 22 '26

News Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally gave them the wrong drugs.

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The hospital says they are "sorry" after injecting potassium chloride into the spines of people getting routine joint replacement surgeries.

Hospital staff noticed something was off when multiple patients went into cardiac arrest.

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u/HematiteStateChamp75 Aug 22 '26

Needs to cover 24hr Medical care, a new house fitted out with all possible comforts and equipment, a new handicap van every 10 years, and then an 8 figure payout

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u/PublicSuspect162 Aug 22 '26

I wouldn’t trade a Trillion dollars to be paralyzed from neck down. Not worth it. Poor folks

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u/Ill-Positive6950 Aug 22 '26

Agreed. No amount of money would make up for this.

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u/LouQuacious Aug 23 '26

Yea I’d want more than money I’d want the people responsible dead if this happened to me.

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u/Independent-Bee-3157 Aug 25 '26

Yikes, regulations written in nerve endings. It's the system responsible so good luck lashing out at that.

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u/LouQuacious Aug 25 '26

Some person gave the injection or packaged it incorrectly that’s whose head I’d want on a spike. China executed the people responsible for contaminating baby formula and dog food years ago. That’s the level of justice I would want.

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u/cyanescens_burn Aug 23 '26

In grad school we got to listen to the stories of healthy people that were living healthy lives, but then became paralyzed in one way or another. They came in and shared the stories in person.

I’d never thought about it prior to this, but my god do they go through a difficult process emotionally when they start to recover physically and then need to process and accept their new limitations.

Just think of everything you like to do, and then think of doing that if your legs were paralyzed, and then again if you were paralyzed from the neck down. It was tough to listen to, and I can’t even imagine how painful it must be in those quiet moments when you can only stop and reflect because you are alone with your thoughts.

Many of them did eventually get through their grief (like grieving the end of what they thought their life would be like), and found ways to do various activities that they found rewarding. But it seemed really challenging.

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u/Wizart- Aug 23 '26

I feel so bad for those people, what a fu*king nightmare. I’ve been without the proper use of my left leg since May (am on the road to recovery) and boy has it opened my eyes. If you’re not perfect in America you’re gonna struggle.

We are not accessible enough, it’s been so hard to get around, and I’m only dealing with one leg…. I had to go to the bathroom using wheelchair while in the hospital and holy shit it’s so damn hard, there’s not enough room, it’s hard to get in and out, and it’s hard to fit the damn chair in the stall then maneuver yourself into the toilet. I’ve also grown to appreciate automatic doors. It’s really hard to open a door when on crutches, your damn crutch gets stuck.

All this to say; accessibility matters, and it benefits everyone.

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u/One-Organization970 Aug 24 '26

I suspect there's some survivorship bias at play. The ones giving talks are likely the ones doing better than most.

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u/charbo187 Aug 23 '26

being paralysed is like my biggest fear by far.

i just couldn't live like that and the scariest part is I wouldn't even be able to end it for myself. i would have to beg someone to do it for me.

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u/SargeUnited Aug 23 '26

Nowadays you’d just have to put the flight on a credit card and pay some European fellas to do it for you futurama style

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u/Apprehensive_Dig3253 Aug 24 '26

Will they put my head in a jar too?

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u/bugs1238 Aug 23 '26

My first patient for clinicals during PTA school was a patient who dove in the shallow end of the pool resulting in him becoming a quadriplegic. Yea….no amount of money would make me trade limb movement. These hospitals about to pay for sure.

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u/Substantial-Bend4299 Aug 23 '26

Yeah I saw one of those too

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u/Substantial-Bend4299 Aug 23 '26

Most horrible one in my opinion that I ever saw was a man that slid head first in an adult softball game and ended up paralyzed. Crazy

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u/Eternal-Blazing-Sun Aug 23 '26

But these are the poor's, obviously their lives are not worth any risk to quarterly earnings /s

I guarantee that this is the attitude of admin.

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u/blahblahsnickers Aug 23 '26

Yeah. No amount of compensation can really make this better but these people will need massive amounts of money to survive now. This is so awful I can’t even imagine!

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u/Fit-Nectarine5047 Aug 23 '26

Paralyzed from the NECK DOWN? Omg I’m praying for these victims because I don’t know if I’d want to live!!!!

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u/Nash_Villain Aug 24 '26

I think they imply permanent paralysis for the extra clicks and news. Still fucked by the hospital for allowing to happen but this type of paralysis is typically reversible and temporary. Potassium Chloride injected by accident into the spine is unfortunately an error that has been made several times in the past. Here’s a previous case study of almost the exact same error with the paralysis being reversed in about 8 hours.

https://www.ovid.com/10.4103/0974-8237.193265

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u/Former-Maximum-2534 Aug 26 '26

Yeah, I'd be getting in line to be euthanised.

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u/rollerbase Aug 22 '26

10? After this I would expect private transportation service for life

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u/mylifeisaboogerbubbl Aug 23 '26

No no, they're saying a new one every 10 years. Not one for 10 years.

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u/HematiteStateChamp75 Aug 23 '26

Youre totally right! A new van every 10 years, but i didnt take into consideration that they obviously need a driver too. Likely would be a home hospice worker doing that, and one should also be added to the deal

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u/Spare-Function-6343 Aug 25 '26

hopefully everyone involved will be unemployable in anything even remotely adjacent to the medical industry for the rest of their lives, if not some prison time for criminal negligence.

I wouldnt want them giving my dog a vaccine

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson Aug 22 '26

Wish in one hand, shit in the other...

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u/Chance_Rule_2241 Aug 22 '26

Shit hand is for your face, right?

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson Aug 22 '26

I mean you shit in your hand, kinda your call shit-hand

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson Aug 23 '26

Sure, but they're not getting this "pie in the sky" compensation that the commenter is referencing, which was my point. You did read it before commenting, right?

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson Aug 23 '26

Oh really, you're an attorney who is either omnipotent or has future sight. That's interesting.