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15-year-old schoolgirl died after 'doctor mistook tuberculosis for lovesickness'
Telegraph UK ^
| 05-14-2012
| Staff
Posted on 05/15/2012 2:22:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Alina Sarag died of tuberculosis after her GP claimed she was 'lovesick' Photo: Newsteam
Isn't Socialized Medicine, AKA OBAMACARE, wonderful?......
To: Red Badger
Wouldn’t a simply x-ray have cleared this up??
To: Red Badger
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE STRIKES AGAIN.
WELCOME TO OBAMACARE.
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:24:51 PM PDT
by
Signalman
( November, 2012-The End of an Error)
To: miss marmelstein
Wouldnt a simply x-ray have cleared this up?? X-rays cost money, you know!
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:26:26 PM PDT
by
Da Bilge Troll
(Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
To: miss marmelstein
Wouldnt a simply x-ray have cleared this up?? Or even cheaper, a TB skin test
To: Red Badger
Repeat after me....progressives know more than you do.
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:28:18 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: miss marmelstein
They finally did an x-ray, but said it was a ‘chest infection’.........
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:29:23 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
To: HangnJudge
I just read the article - he refused to test her.
To: HangnJudge
According to the article, the doctor refused to test her.
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:30:39 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: Red Badger
Heartbreaking. TB is NOT an easy way to die—
To: Red Badger
Coming to the USA if Omarxist has his way and the SCOTUS caves to his threats.
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:33:53 PM PDT
by
mongo141
(Revolution ver 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
To: Red Badger
"Dr Sharad Shripadrao Pandit"
Now THERE'S a good old English Midlands name /s...
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:38:07 PM PDT
by
pricilla
(one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
To: Red Badger
Tuberculosis is usually a slow incidious disease which manifests as a chronic productive or nonproductive cough. Very often hemoptysis is seen as the disease progresses. I would like to know if she became progressively hypoxic and dyspneic. Very often, in medicine, the last doctor to see the patient is the hero because he has the benefit of seeing the disease state well along in its manifestations. She should have lost weight, manifested a fever (of unknown origin), chronic cough, and a chest X-ray which showed apical cavitation of the lungs and lymphadenopathy. It would be difficult to write those physical findings as the findings of lovesickness in an adolescent.
It does seem, however, based upon a very superficial reading of this report that the family physician screwed the pooch and the child paid the price.
To: Red Badger
Coming soon to America if Obama is re-elected.
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:41:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Im pretty sure I would have gone postal on said “doctor”.
To: Texas Songwriter
Did you see the part where her father is being treated for TB, a former classmate had TB, and the went to Pakistan recently on a trip? Add all that with her symptoms and it should have been a no brainer. A simple sputum test would have shown it immediately..........
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:53:52 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
To: pricilla
Must be from Lancashire.............
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:55:30 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
To: miss marmelstein
Maybe and there’s a routine and cheap pin prick to test for it. All teachers used to have to get tested. My son had to get tested before going on some of his meds. Good grief.
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posted on
05/15/2012 2:58:30 PM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Red Badger
Yes. Anyone living in close contact with a known TB patient needs to be treated with Rifampin prophylactically. This case is a crying shame and a tragedy.
To: Red Badger
There is no way this is a real MD...if it is, he should be jailed. No one could be that stupid..he did it purposely. I would look at murder charges.
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posted on
05/15/2012 3:02:09 PM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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