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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: BazaJT on 07 March 2015, 17:51:20
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Firstly the background.At the end of last March Maureen took herself off to hospital on her motability scooter for her regular INR blood test to determine the doseage of wharfrin she needed.While there she reported a slight blood loss over the previous few days and was immediately admitted.Her wharfrin was stopped and she was given injections of something else so blood loss could be stopped and cause investigated.Couple of days later[April 1st]she had massive stroke and although not expected to survive she did so,eventually passed fit by stroke unit and returned home.Three days after this she was re-admitted with a huge blood loss which due to her stroke they'd not investigated.Blood loss stopped,investigation of cause revealed she had piles,eventually returned home and recovery went slowly and steadily until 14th February this year when 2nd stroke hit,again not expected to survive but she did-in fact visiting her next day you'd not have thought anything had happened the previous evening!Passed as fit to return home on the following Tuesday she returned on the Wednesday afternoon.Thursday evening 3rd stroke hit and she passed away early on the Friday.Last week I had a phone call from her own doctor who'd signed the medical certificate of death[charging £160 for this service!]asking me to tell him how she'd died!!!?Just now got another phone call from a doctor at a totally different practice saying his information was that she'd had a fall suffered a stroke and died in ambulance on way to hospital.I told him there was no fall yes a stroke and no she'd died in hospital.Then he asked if I thought there was anything untoward in her death!How do I know?she had a stroke was admitted to hospital and died a short while later.Are they covering their backs in case of a law suit which I'd never considered filing?Or is this just standard procedure? Apologies for long post.
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once again sorry for your loss and while your grieving this is thrown at you,im sure somebody with experience will post on this but do they know their arse from their elbow and are they scared of something negligent?i hope its just clerical errors and not negligence cos its not what you need and I hope my post hasn't added to something you may already be thinking.as said more experience will hopefully follow
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oh and im sure I can speak for everyone on here there is no need to apologise for the long post :y :-*
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A lot of it I can accept as being the norm it was just the question did I think there was anything untoward that threw me.Why would they ask that if they were not preparing to cover their backs?and if that's what they were doing do they think something iffy occurred?It was reported to coroner[standard practice]police took statements from myself and Maureens daughters shortly after-within a few minutes actually-she passed away,no autopsy was ordered and her body was released to funeral director by the Monday after she died.Just a bit confused coroner obviously thought nothing wrong,so why the question from the last doctor?
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I'm afraid it's going to be the stock reply from me, Baza. While I'm sure there are people on here with experience of such matters, there is no substitute for professional, impartial advice. The citizens advice bureau, while they seem to be dealing with nothing but financial advice these days, have people who will point you in the right direction. Cool your heels for the rest of the weekend, gather your thoughts, and write down the timeline in which these events happened. Try and remember as much detail as possible about the content of the phone calls and write it down.
Then, on Monday, start making enquiries. Do it for yourself, your own peace of mind, and see where it takes you. But, first of all, make sure that you are ready to start this course of action, because I doubt it will be pleasant.
Good luck mate.
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It could be that there's an internal audit run to see what can be learned from any given situation :-\
Things can always be done better on paper, but at the time did they do everything they should/could have... it might simply be that one of the nurses/doctors was under observation, and it's therefore totally unrelated to your sad loss.
There's at least one medico here, perhaps they'll be able to be a bit less speculative :y
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I wasn't at the time and am still not thinking of even trying to go "legal" on this it was just that one question that niggled me.I do believe although I can't prove it of course that the medics had a pretty good idea that a 3rd stroke was imminent and sent her home so soon after the 2nd one so that she would have time here.If that is true then I am eternally grateful to them as I got to spend that one last day with her.I'm no medic but in all honesty I think the outcome would have been the same even had she been in a hospital bed at the time.
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This suggests that they're undergoing a review of the course of events... Keeping her in hospital might have been the procedural thing to do, but sending her home was the right/human thing to do ;)
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Its either a clerical error or the doctors just aint talking to each other as they should be doing...
When my Mum passed away in January, I had to tell her doctor what she died of (BronchoPneumonia apparently - I still don't believe that she died of that) I didn't get anyone ringing me to ask if I thought anything iffy had gone on...
It could just be that the 'professionals' just arent talking to each other....