Very sad ending..

[Lutheran]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/c574fb06-cbff-4b12-bba3-418df971cd22.hmedium.jpg

I feel sick over what happened to this beautiful girl. Its unbelievable what an infection can do to a human.

From msnbc.com

SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian model whose feet and hands were amputated following a drug-resistant infection died early on Saturday, health officials said.

Mariana Bridi, 20, died at 2:30 a.m from complications related to a generalized infection caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the Espirito Santo State Health Secretariat said in a statement. The bacteria is known to be resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics.

Bridi had been in the hospital in the city of Serra in Espirito Santo state since Jan. 3

Doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones in December, local media said. But as her condition worsened, she was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection that spread.

The cause of the infection was not immediately known.

It reduced the flow of oxygen to her limbs, causing her feet to be amputated last week and her hands this week. Part of Bridi's stomach was also removed as doctors tried to contain internal bleeding, local media said.

Health officials on Friday said Bridi was not breathing on her own and was undergoing hemodialysis at a hospital in the city of Serra.

Bridi was twice a finalist in the Brazilian stage of the Miss World pageant.

[Church42]

Yeah, it's sad...most deaths are sad...is this somehow more sad b/c she's hot though or that it was a painful way to leave the world?

[Johan]

Doctors originally diagnosed her with kidney stones in December

THIS is why I did not become a doctor. When you fuck up as a doctor, you kill people. 100,000 Americans die from medical errors (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/16/1927) every freaking year. I have no idea what the statistics would be in Brazil, but I'm sure they would be similar on a per capita basis.

It's very sad, but I have to say that surviving without feet or hands would have been very, very tough. Yes...she would have been alive. How alive, I don't know. :(

[Church42]

Physician errors do kill people, but it unreasonable to hold them to an error-free standard...and also to a standard where you expect every surgery to be post-op infection free.

Sad story all around, but infections happen..some of them are bad infections, like the antibiotic-resistant one she got. She probably suffered alot (if she was conscious for most of her remaining days), but no more sad than people who die from a slow, painful cancer death or the like.

[Tron]

We would have never heard about this if she wasn't hot. My friends mom just died tragically...too bad she wasn't a model so her battle with a rare illness could have made the headlines.

[Lutheran]

Yeah, it's sad...most deaths are sad...is this somehow more sad b/c she's hot though or that it was a painful way to leave the world?

Yes its the way it happened to her , to lose her hands first and then her feet and then part of her stomach..only to die anyway. And its not like she got hit with a bus or something..somehow , and no one knows how , she got a bug that caused one of those rare infections that do not respond to treatment.

[Lutheran]

We would have never heard about this if she wasn't hot. My friends mom just died tragically...too bad she wasn't a model so her battle with a rare illness could have made the headlines.

Inevitably every time someone posts a thread about a famous person dying you get the standard reply's asking why should this persons death be more important then all the other deaths that occur on a daily basis. Every death is sad , including your friends mom.

[Widgetcraft]

Yeah, it's sad...most deaths are sad...is this somehow more sad b/c she's hot though or that it was a painful way to leave the world?

Well, she had her feet and hands amputated, along with part of her stomach being removed, in her last couple of weeks alive... that is pretty sad.

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[Mr. Murphy]

Well, she had her feet and hands amputated, along with part of her stomach being removed, in her last couple of weeks alive... that is pretty sad.

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Plus she was like, 20.

Plus she was hot!!! Didn't you see the picture?!? ;)

[carnage11]

We would have never heard about this if she wasn't hot. My friends mom just died tragically...too bad she wasn't a model so her battle with a rare illness could have made the headlines.

You should make a thread about your friend's mom. Not any less important in my book. :confused:

[Cerebus]

My dad lost his leg due to an infection. Now, a few years later, he's in the hospital fighting off another one. It's looking like he's going to make it, but damn, don't take infections lightly!

[fitbabits]

THIS is why I did not become a doctor. When you fuck up as a doctor, you kill people. 100,000 Americans die from medical errors (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/16/1927) every freaking year. I have no idea what the statistics would be in Brazil, but I'm sure they would be similar on a per capita basis.
For all the bad rep some doctors get for misdiagnosing their patients, not enough is ever said to commend those who get decisions right and who save a life that would otherwise have been lost.

100,000 Americans die from medical errors every year.

Many hundreds of thousands (possibly even millions) of Americans are saved by doctors every year.

Oh, and it's called medical "practice" for a reason. Doctors practice medicine.

[Narradisall]

For all the bad rep some doctors get for misdiagnosing their patients, not enough is ever said to commend those who get decisions right and who save a life that would otherwise have been lost.

100,000 Americans die from medical errors every year.

Many hundreds of thousands (possibly even millions) of Americans are saved by doctors every year.

Oh, and it's called medical "practice" for a reason. Doctors practice medicine.

All too true.

I certainly wouldn't want to be one.

People make mistakes, but if your sweeping the streets and you mess up you may at worst drop your broomstick. A similar small error in a medical profession and you may kill someone. It sucks.