A picture of Clemie taken from a Facebook memorial website Posted on 09/21/2010 11:34:35 AM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
A 17-year-old girl at one of the country’s top independent schools was ‘lost’ by doctors in a hospital as she lay dying of meningitis-related blood poisoning, an inquest heard today.
Clementine Nicholson, known as Clemie, collapsed at £24,000-a-year Rugby School and was rushed to Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry but she died the next day of meningococcal septicaemia - blood poisoning caused by the same type of bacteria that causes meningitis.
The condition needed to be treated within six hours if there was any chance of survival, the inquest at Coventry Magistrates Court heard, but Dr Patodi sent her for an unnecessary CT scan and even took a 30-minute break.
A picture of Clemie taken from a Facebook memorial website
A picture of Clemie taken from a Facebook memorial website: Her mother raised questions over the delays in her treatment when she reached hospital
Shockingly, Clemie then became lost as she was being moved between two other wards before being eventually sent to intensive care.
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He should be stripped of his Medical license, injected with live meningitis bacterium, and strapped to a gurney until he expires.
That’s horrible, but it has happened in Jacksonville Naval Hospital too. Plus they have a way of losing children permanently....
What a shame and waste. RIP.
Coming soon to an 0bamaCare facility in your community.
That’s a shame. Pretty girl.
Unfortunately, no matter how many degrees hang on their wall or how much experience they have ... doctors are just people.
Like cops, soldiers and other life-saving professions ... I try to cut doctors some slack for mistakes. They have a job where they take people’s lives in their hands, and, no matter how many safeguards are put in place, mistakes are inevitable. Human error cannot be completely elminated even with education, experience, practice, or fail-safes.
It is truly horrible that this happened to this girl. I pray for peace for her family, and for any person working at that hospital that holds themself responsible.
SnakeDoc
In 2003, they had a rash of three or four children die after arriving in the hospital. They found out that they just needed to clean the hospital....nothing happened since.
In the US the doctor and hospital would be sued six ways from Sunday for this kind of malpractice. It would appear that in the UK there is no such thing as malpractice that has any civil penalties. I guess when the government runs things they have no responsibility for the quality of care.
This diagnosis gets missed too often because physicians aren't suspicious enough. In my view, the most important lesson to learn from medical school and clinical training is how to recognize really sick/life-threatening conditions and distinguish them from non-emergent conditions. This only comes from seeing lots of really sick people. Of course, in all their dubious politically correct ‘wisdom’ academic administrators have decided that medical students should do less time with ICU patients and on the wards, and more time doing outpatient medicine. It's a huge mistake, and will have deleterious effects undoubtedly.
Government medical care.
“A fine example of what ObamaCare will do to the US.”
Exactly!
With apologies to Oscar Wilde, to lose a state-school student in the hospital is a misfortune. To lose a public-school student looks like carelessness.
“”[House-mistress]Ms Shelly tried to summon Dr James Kilvert who was 400 metres away in the school’s sanatorium and was ‘annoyed’ when Sister Jeanette Patrick told her he was busy.
She eventually called an ambulance around 15 minutes later when it became clear Clemie’s condition was deteriorating.
Ms Shelly told the inquest that Clemie had been to hospital twice in the months before contracting meningococcal septicaemia.
She said: ‘I was annoyed that the doctor wasn’t coming to see Clemie. I requested assistance to help her. Her feet were a strange colour when I went in. She complained about her feet straight away. In the ambulance I made sure people were aware of it.’
The inquest heard that Clemie needed regular medical attention as she suffered with heart problems and Palindromic Rheumatism.
Andrew Axon, representing Clemie’s parents, told the inquest Dr Kilvert was ‘simply too busy’.
He said: ‘Ms Shelly had no alternative than to take matters into her own hands when she realised the doctor wasn’t going to come.
‘I want to challenge the suggestion that the second phone call was an ongoing dialogue as oppose to a request for a doctor. It was Ms Shelly saying we need a doctor.’
Sister Patrick denied that she had refused to send Dr Kilvert the two-minute walk to Clemie. She said: ‘My recollection is that there wasn’t a doctor’s request. That request wasn’t put to me like that. I had the message that Clemie wasn’t well.’
Dr Kilvert said he believed an ambulance was already on its way when he was informed about Clemie’s condition.””
if mack daddies deathcare go unto effect they need not worry about losing a patient, they will just send her home to die - to expensive.
Harsh, but fair.
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