Posted on 05/19/2010 2:26:08 PM PDT by Steelfish
Woman Died After Doctors Failed To Spot Toilet Brush In Her Buttocks A mother died after doctors repeatedly failed to spot a toilet brush handle embedded in her buttock.
19 May 2010
Cindy Corton, 35, was left with the bizarre injury after a drunken fall in a friend's bathroom in 2005. She was twice seen by hospital staff in the aftermath of the incident and an X-ray was carried out.
But an inquest heard it took Mrs Corton, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, two years to convince doctors that the handle was lodged in flesh of her bottom. By then what should have been a routine procedure to remove it had become much more dangerous.
After two unsuccessful operations in 2007, Mrs Corton underwent further, much riskier surgery and died from massive blood loss at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre in June last year. Recording a narrative verdict, coroner Stuart Fisher criticised Dr Killian Mbewe, who first examined Mrs Corton at Grantham hospital.
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Well, that stinks.
Yes, but she would have died anyway - from embarrassment - if they had noticed it!
Mbewe—sounds like an African name. I’ve read articles about how physicians in England are leaving in drove, requiring the government to hire “foreign”-educated doctors who are not worthy of the title. Look for it here if Nobamacare goes forward.
After the inquest, husband Peter Corton said: “Cindy got a very poor service from the NHS.
“I’m sure she would have got better treatment in foreign countries.”
I guess when she told her boss that if she stuck a brush in her butt she could scrub the toilet too, he took her up on it.
So waht amounts to a six-inch shard of plastic that wasn’t seen on x-ray (highly possible), embedded deep enough in one of her cheeks so that it contacted bone, was left in long enough for ossification. This prompted major surgery wherein the patient bled-out on the table.
Sounds like soomeone nicked the femoral artery...
Said the same to the wife this morning.
Sounds like she had a real pain in the butt.
I am just trying to figure out the ‘how that would work’ logistics of being drunk, a toilet bowl brush and buttocks.......
Please, please no pictures. I beseech you.
Death by toilet brush! What an embarrassing way to go.
Million to one shot, Doc.
Just how big were those buttocks that neither the wound nor the object could be located ...
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How was your day???
Sounds like a terminal pain in the arse!
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