Schoolgirl, 11, sent home from A&E after doctors say she has constipation dies next day
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Schoolgirl, 11, sent home from A&E after doctors say she has constipation dies next day
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/girl-11-sent-home-doctors-33010582
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Advocate for yourself, to the point of looking like a complete loon. Do not let an unqualified person tell you otherwise, if you know something is wrong, something is wrong.
I did the same for 4 years, until I demanded an MRI for my head. I refused to leave my GP’s office as they wanted to try another round of SSRI’s.
Got my scan, and within 3 days I was called by a consultant at LGI. A brain tumour, left cerebellum. Not life-threatening, but, life altering in many ways.
4 years of abdominal pain, I doubt she was given a CT or any scoping. Poor girl, and poor family.
YELL AND SCREAM for medical help.
Quiet people will be sat in a corridor for days, or sent home with 2 aspirin.
This happened to my sister. She got pregnant. She felt weak and ‘strange’.
GP said she was just “under the weather”, and should go home and sleep it off.
Turned out she was bleeding internally and would have died within hours. If she hadn’t bitched and complained and FORCED a further examination she’d have died.
Its the same for the police. They will ignore you unless you press for action. It’s happened literally where people threatening to kill their ex have been told “naughty naughty don’t do that”. (i.e. “thats a domestic issue”)
It’s only when the person starts being ‘difficult’ that the police step in and DO something.
That’s sad to hear, the poor girl deserved better care. Just goes to show that it’s absolutely O.K to push back against professional opinion if you think somethings not right. Unfortunately (me included) the trust you have for doctors is hard to go against, poor parents will feel so guilty. Horrible situation all round.
Tragically due to defunding the NHS is a system you have to game. This means the very worst people do the best.
Example is A&E, you or I in pain would have to wait but if you make enough of a fuss they’d give you the painkillers just to shut you up.
Pretend you’re a Karen. Act like one with them. No you won’t accept one opinion and no you won’t just go away. Be a fucking pain in the ass and they will prioritise you.
It’s sad but better than dying
My dad was told he had a virus when one of his lungs wasn’t working from cancer and sent home. The next day we got a second opinion. We lost him on New Year’s Day, two months after diagnosis.
How many more are going to suffer from a lack of care before it changes.
What an awful story, My mum had a similar issue, feeling seriously unwell, hadn’t passed anything for days. Came home early from a holiday, I picked her up from the airport and she looked horrendous, drove straight to hospital. A&E Doctor tried to send her home with an enema. Luckily my mum is a nurse and knew something was up so refused to go and wanted a second opinion. An hour later she’s been sent for emergency surgery for bowel obstruction and resection. Horrific day.
At least the medical care was free, unlike the American system
Absolutely tragic, but it’s not yet clear how she died? Or at least the article doesn’t mention a cause of death. The need for a coroner’s inquest would suggest that the cause and circumstances have not been adequately established.
This feels like pretty typical sensational reporting that is relying on the reader’s preconceived notions to fill in the blanks rather than being concerned with remaining purely within the facts.
Moreover, it also looks like this is just the papers copy/pasting a press release from the Parents’ lawyers, so lazy journalism at that:
[https://www.irwinmitchell.com/news-and-insights/newsandmedia/2024/june/parents-heartbreak-as-warwick-girl-dies-hours-after-being-diagnosed-with-constipation-and-sent-home](https://www.irwinmitchell.com/news-and-insights/newsandmedia/2024/june/parents-heartbreak-as-warwick-girl-dies-hours-after-being-diagnosed-with-constipation-and-sent-home)
I’m not saying that it isn’t possible this poor girl was failed in some way during her care and it isn’t important that any possible medical negligence is investigated, but two days before the Coroner’s inquest a bit premature to assert that medical negligence *must* be case.
I was having severe headaches for years nearly daily. Doctors never said it was anything serious, both me and my mother had to fight so much for me to find the real issue, I missed so much school because of it and failed most my exams. This is terrifying I keep hearing about this happening
I think everyone has a terrible anecdote these days. I think a lot of low skilled doctors are now doing all the work and have no experienced ones available to guide them, we’re regressing backwards so bad it’s scary. Most are just trying to make it into the private profession anyway where they can rinse the boomers dry.
My sister nearly died of sepsis and was misdiagnosed with constipation. Her appendix had burst and she was lucky to survive it.
When she went to the hospital for the 4th time, they had the audacity to ask why she hadn’t come in sooner!
Some of the dumbest most apathetic people I’ve ever known have been GPs. I make a point to make their lives difficult if they try and shrug me off, I’ve had complaints upheld and managed to get my issues seen to only because I’ve been willing to publicly and personally target their incompetence.
I went to a and e with debilitating stomach pain leaving me hardly able to walk. The doctor asked me if I were pregnant, tested my urine for pregnancy, and then told me to go home. I got a second opinion the next day by going back. I had sepsis from internal bleeding. So many girls and women are overlooked and told their issues must just be their period.
My partner was misdiagnosed with a gastro bug and a week later her bowel perforated. They also removed her appendix when they didn’t need to.
The NHS is basically a firefighting service these days. Once you’re in the hospital with an immediately apparent crisis level problem, they’re often pretty good.
Anything up to that point (consultation, investigation, diagnosis, first response) it’s just collapsed; A pedaller of advised bed-rest and over the counter pain relief.
It *is* the fault of the past decade and a half under the Tories, who have always fundamentally hated the NHS and have finally come within touching distance of their 70-year ambition to destroy it… However, even eith that said, it is hard – emotionally – to excuse this kind of medical incompetence.
Ex was literally having a heart attack in the A&E waiting room (her second one so we both knew what the symptoms were) whilst i was waiting to be seen after the GP sent me down urgently, nurse manning the reception desk seemed more annoyed at me for trying to get them to see her than she was with the drunk yelling racial slurs in the corner and threatened to say i was refusing treatment when i insisted they take her in before me.
Another case of medical negligence or gross incompetence. Either way the NHS is a joke.
Unfortunately going private is unaffordable for me so I’ll keep pestering the NHS for treatment.
When she was seven, my best friend went into A & E three times with side pain and was sent home three times. Eventually due to radiating pain they admitted her and thought she was infectious so they kept her in a special room for a week where the pain got worse and she went grey.
No one did anything until a consultant, came in on a Sunday and was just floating around casually and after he saw her and did a quick examination he said it was peritonitis and rushed her to surgery. It ruptured right after they opened her up.
Afterwards, while recovering, she had a drain in and a nurse put a clip on it while clipping up her gown so she could wash and all the infected material backed up and went back inside her. She went grey and almost died before they noticed.
She had a bother incident more recently where if she hadn’t had her mum advocating like a crazy person for her she would have died of sepsis.
If anyone is single, come to an arrangement with ur mates that if ur sick they will fight on ur behalf. By fight, I mean fight for normal treatment. Otherwise they will leave u to die.
I have two chronic illnesses – Ankylosing Spondylitis (23 years a patient) and Crohn’s Disease (8 years a patient) – and I have to constantly fight medical professionals to do something. I’ve been through FOUR rheumatologists in the past 8 years on the NHS, one of which I am actively engaged in litigation with, and a further three privately. I’ve had three colorectal and gastrointestinal consultants, and even now I’m still getting lost in the system.
Reading this article comes as no surprise. I know so many people in the community who have suffered through incorrect diagnoses, wrong medications, being gaslit. It’s hard work having these illnesses anyway without being told “it’s all in your head” and other assorted, well, insults.
I learnt a decade ago that only I am in control of my care pathway. I must nag and chase and demand care and to see the next steps to my care. I cannot allow NHS employees to do as they see fit because it results in a fractured foot + ankle go unscanned and then heal wrong so now i have to wear insoles forever. It allows persistent tendonitis to disfigure my elbow so it cannot unbend so its straight ever again without intense physio. It means that 2 X-ray requests go completely unanswered for months. Appointments disappear. Blood tests cancelled. Incorrect prescriptions posted out to me because the nurse was looking at outdated records and didn’t ask me to confirm my doses.
My partner’s story is far worse as she has Lupus. As someone who uses the NHS on a weekly basis. It fails on several departments in several regions. It’s inefficiency that costs lives is systemic. It is limping.
And people are still against privatising the NHS.
When will people learn that publicly funded services without competition and drivers to provide good quality, efficient services to the end-user just don’t work.
1 private GP appointment could’ve well saved this girls life.
My dad had a heart attack as the docs fobbed him off with gaviscon for 4 weeks.
After his heart attack, a specialist consultant said gaviscon was the worst thing for him as it can further clog arteries with continuous use.
He found out his heart attack could have been prevented had the docs actually looked into his pain and problems.
My brother had almost the exact opposite of this story. Emergency admittance to hospital. Suspected appendicitis, waiting for surgery in the morning. Turned out he just needed a really big poo.