Court documents state Sheahen, a registered nurse...
This should be in the headline. In my State at least, a medical professional is liable for negligence and neglect in circumstances where a laymen would not be.
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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Thanks, I was wondering what made this woman liable for her mother's care.
There does sound like a lot of confusion in the article, it says hyperglycemia, then says suspected low blood sugar. Those are opposites. Giving insulin for hyperglycemia would be correct. Then later it says she was regularly running high, 200 to 300, which definitely is not good but not immediately life threatening. It honestly sounds like this lady didn't know what she was doing and made no effort to learn, plus she may have been shilling some weird "alternative" products which is bad...
I'm type 1 diabetic, most people, whether its the public, medical professionals, or reporters, don't know the difference between type 1 and 2, and manage as type 2. Loooots of people as type 1 report going into DKA if they're admitted to a hospital in the US because you're not allowed to manage your own insulin, and they treat you like a type 2 using their stupid 'sliding scale' approach.
Long way to say, I'm not surprised both this woman didn't know what she was doing, and that this article got aaaalll the details wrong.
I'm a type 1 too, I hear ya. Funnily enough when I encounter people who don't really understand T1D I tell them to watch the Studio C skit "Diabetes Intervention", they absolutely nail it.
Ayyy the T1D club is here. I've been T1 since 2001.
Heeeyyy... "hyperglycemia", "hypoglycemia", eh, what's the difference? /s
Greedy monster. But also:
A sentencing day has not yet.
Come on. You're not even trying to perform copy editing.