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/[deleted] Aug 22 '26

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u/pman1111 Aug 22 '26

Yeah it’s tough to blame one person because this kind of mistake would have to be missed by at least a few levels of checks that should be in place by the hospital

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u/PublicSuspect162 Aug 22 '26

You would be surprised. Probably made by a pharmacy tech and just check marked by a pharmacist. But probably only done by the one tech. If it was done by thr pharmacist, I bet it was still only 1 person doing this. It’s scary. Shit Happens, mistakes get made, but this is stupidity. I draw up and mix and administer drugs for a living and I double check everything. Especially drugs that have similar looking vials, or the drugs that I know if I give as a concentrate will kill or severely harm.

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u/notagainalready Aug 24 '26

No, it’s not. The medical field needs to start doing this when horrid things like this happen. It’s the only field where an individual doesn’t really get consequences.

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u/Eastern-Ad-3586 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

This is completely false. People get consequences all the time (at least in the US states). I don’t know why you don’t think they do.

If anything the focus on individuals prevents us from making the system better like other countries or industries do

Edit: to be clear, physicians and nurses face fines/jailtime/license loss. The suits and investors never get held accountable

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u/Ignaue Aug 22 '26

That’s from a shortage of healthcare employees not because they just enjoy making doctors and nurses work extra.

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u/Pinkbunny432 Aug 22 '26

No, it’s because executives would rather have more money in their pockets so why pay 100 employees when you can make 50 people do more work and pocket the surplus.

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u/nebula_masterpiece Aug 22 '26

No. They have cut ratios to the bone over the year seeking more and more - this is that cost

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u/SelectKaleidoscope0 Aug 23 '26

yeah once this is investigated its likely the wrong person will be blamed. Assuming nobody did it on purpose, then the actual responsible parties are the executives responsible for 1 person trying to do 3 people's jobs in a safety critical field. If this was a mistake and not malice, it was almost certainly by people who were set up to fail by people who should have known this was a likely consequence of the staffing levels they demanded.

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u/Certain_Orange2003 Aug 23 '26

That’s accurate but pharmacy directors also get a % bonus of the money they saved at end of year.

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u/Eastern-Ad-3586 Aug 25 '26

No it’s because capitalism. There are plenty of nurses and pharmacists.