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His migraine was treated however his health care credits were used up because of it.
It could happen in ANY government run system.
What's the big deal?
I believe something similar to this happened to me at a military hospital when I was just 13. I had severe symptoms including stiff neck, high fever, incredible drowsiness and malaise. The military doctor diagnosed it as “muscle spasms.” I was sick, with continual relapses, for about a month, but eventually fought off whatever it was. To this day I wonder whether it was meningitis.
Even I know that children presenting themselves with severe headaches one must suspect meningitis.....poor family
God help us - that poor mum. A spinal tap is not that relatively expensive; this just sounds more like serial incompetence rather than NHS cost-saving crap.
I don’t know what they mean by saying his meningitis was incurable, since they don’t really say what type it was. Yeah, it’s incurable once your kid is BRAIN DEAD, for sure!
Yep, Once-Great Britain for sure.
Not the first time this has happened and just recently, too
What IS their reluctance to test for meningitis? Spinal tap costs too much taxpayer money?
May those careless/arrogant doctors see that boy’s face at the moment of their own passing.
Socialist medicine works. The ungroomed Michael Moore says so.
IMO meningitis is difficult to diagnose if one is presented with the index case. The symptoms mimic many other problems and the disease progresses rapidly, not allowing a physician to consider the differentials with the progressing symptoms. Once the first case has progressed to severe symptoms, then they are alerted to other cases. It sucks to be an index case but that is the fact of life.
To be fair that sort of thing happens over here too. I remember a person having the wrong limb taken off near me not long ago and thousands of people being operated on with surgical instruments cleaned with hydraulic fluid.
I think the difference is that our system tends to make these things less likely. A big reason is that we give patients more choice. That tends to weed out the worst places and tends to force everyone to improve their product. We also compensate doctors better.
Poor child. RIP.