Posted on 10/23/2009 12:43:47 PM PDT by onehitfrag
Nikki Sams died after cervical cancer spread into her lungs, spine and neck despite repeated complaints to her doctor of irregular bleeding and abdominal pain.
Dr Navin Shankar, 59, told her it was ''nothing serious'', ignored her request for hospital checks and never performed an internal examination at his surgery in Luton, Beds. The blunder only emerged when Miss Sams was transferred to another GP practice after Dr Shankar was suspended for a separate case of serious misconduct involving a nine-day-old baby.
Her new doctor immediately recommended a smear test which revealed abnormal cells, and further examinations at Luton and Dunstable hospital found a tumour on her cervix.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
For some reason the phrase "dead man walking" has sprung unbidden into my mind.
Looked into her eyes and told her she didnt have a problem anywhere else eh ???
Good grief...
26 years old - dead due to Socialism.
More likely to doctor’s incompetence. JMO
Obama/Pelosi: Tests? Who needs tests. Take two aspirin.
Should have stuck to playing the Sitar.....
After ObamaCare/RomneyCare we’ll have to import physicians. Few American with the math, science ability and work ethos to become a physicians are going to work in a political/bureaucratic, public housing quality medical system. We’ll squeeze out/shaft this present older generation, and then after they die off, the quality will go the way of public housing, HUD, guys standing by the highway. I see no reason that physicians won’t become unionized, along with all the hospital staff. National strikes, coffee breaks, ‘not my shift’, all that will become the norm.
Have to agree. Incompetent doctor. So many dismiss women’s complaints as “just that time of month” and other weak excuses. When my daughter seeks health care, she is often told it’s “all in her head” or “just the way you deal with stress”. When my son seeks health care, he gets some serious attention. We’ve had to go outside the standard health care system to get her health concerns addressed.
“In September 2005 the GMC found Dr Shankar guilty of serious professional misconduct after he dismissed the case of a baby with a blocked artery and then forged his notes on the examination.
Nine-day-old Daniel Miller, whose leg had turned dark blue, had a life threatening blood clot and his toes were becoming gangrenous, but Dr Shankar had said his nappy was too tight.
He was suspended for six months, and after a failed appeal in March 2007 received a further nine month ban.
However, in January 2008 the GMC allowed him to return to unrestricted practice.”
These are the kind of doctors the fools who voted for Obama will get, under Obamacare. The incompetent doctors will work for the government. The really competent physicians will work “under the table” with a select group of patients who are willing to pay for their treatment privately.
Well, yes, incompetent doctor, but now if you don’t like a diagnosis, you go get another. Under socialized medicine, if they say you don’t get a second opinion you don’t get one unless/until he kills someone else. And it may be too late by then for you, too.
Yeah...and all those Hollywood lefties reciting the “no one should die because they have no health care, etc.” mantra....THEY will be going to the good doctors, and paying whatever it takes.
There ya go....
Dreadful. RIP.
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