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Woman dies because Doctors ignore advice from her son - A Doctor |
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A son's diagnosis was ignored by medical staff in a string of blunders which led to the death of Valerie Clare Howard, at the West Middlesex Hospital in West London. The hospital admitted in an inquest hearing that Mrs Howard was misdiagnosed and had been left writhing around in agnony without bieng seen.
Mrs Howard died from an `aoritc disection` on January 6th 2003, but when her son, a Dr Luke Howard, told hospital staff that he believed his sick mother was suffering such a problem, he was ignored for four and a half fatal hours. The West Middlesex Hospital have offered the family their "unreserved apologies." With timely treatment Mrs Howard's chances of survival were 75%.
Comment
This case can only make your angry. I know the hospital and given the choice I would never go there. I once crashed on a motorbike and was taken there and was never seen despite a seven hour wait. When critics challenged our investigation on rogue doctors they failed to realise that these unecessary and arrogant mistakes are costing lives. It is such a sad case that we can only offer Dr Howard and his family our deepest sympathy.
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