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A&E Doctor 'Refused' To See Woman Before She Died
//A senior doctor refused to see a woman who died of an asthma attack after 39 hours sitting in a chair in A&E, an inquest heard.
Marina Young died at the Royal Preston Hospital on 22 June 2022 after a "gross failure to provide adequate assessment and medical care".
The inquest in Preston heard a senior doctor had refused to see her even though her life was at risk, coroner Dr James Adeley said.
He concluded her death at the age of 46 due to asthma was "preventable".//
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An utterly appalling story. How can we have faith in the NHS?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I was shocked at this news report, absolutely unforgivable that anyone should die of neglect whilst in hospital.
I still have faith in the NHS based on past and current experience, as a family we cannot fault them. Between us we have regular check up with consultants for heart, lungs, cancer, glaucoma, COPD, and autoimmune diseases. My oldsters get excellent care from our GP and his nurses. My recent eye operation went extremely well with kindness from everyone.
I really hope that this lady was the exception to the norm, and not me and my family.
My GP surgery is excellent - but the local hospital is not.
In Feb. I broke my hip dramatically. It was complicated and the original hip-replacement liner had pulled some of the pelvic bone away, leaving a jagged hole. It was agonising.
At A&E I was X-rayed, damage established and then spent 27 hrs. on a trolley in a corridor - nurses gave me morphine and talked of an op. in the morning.
In the morning the Dr. (surrounded by students to whom he was obviously showing-off) informed me that he had decided to treat the hip as elective and he was discharging me - adding that he didn't know what they could do about it. That was it. OH had to take me home, no pain control offered.
The surgery was great and swung into action and 1 month later I had an op.--- I was told later that I could have been paralysed for life.
I have no faith in the NHS.
The Corporations (including large Health and Pharmaceutical Companies) now run this country.
well, look at "Dopesick" - Netflix, to see Mga - Pharma run a service. - spoiler - they all die. Michael Keaton doesnt exist ( he recovers in the story).
I was in A+E ( a bed actually) and the med reg took one look at me, and said - " yo arent monitoring him" and got the answer - no we are too busy !
and the reg said: well I cant give him cardioactive drugs then.
YES, P.P. My original hip replacement was still in place so far as the femur and steel/plastic-covered swivel ball was concerned. The protective pelvic liner was hanging loose (with bits of pelvic bone attached).
A wrong movement or twist could have left space for the steel swivel-ball to shoot through to the spine. (The surgeon did tell me that he just touched the liner with his finger and it fell away completely.) If that movement had happened, then the steel hip could have gone through the remaining pelvic bone and into the spine. Well that was what I was told.
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