Posted on 05/29/2015 2:43:38 PM PDT by lbryce
A British teen whose stomach cancer symptoms were allegedly dismissed by doctors as a desire to be skinny died after it spread to her eye and ovaries, the Telegraph reported.
Georgia Marrison, 18, who was preparing to study English Literature at University of Sheffield, complained of tiredness and fatigue. But her mother, Joanne, said that doctors downplayed the symptoms to severe anemia and an overwhelming desire to be thin.
“I felt abandoned by doctors and had nowhere to turn,” Joanne told the Telegraph. “The doctor said to her, ‘Georgia, you are looking very pale, and I know what you 18-year-old girls are like for wanting to look like stick insects.’
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You are right on. My wife and I have finally learned that we must take absolute charge of whatever medical issue we are dealing with and carefully research and seek out a good doctor that cares enough to fix the problem.
Unless you have a slam dunk common problem, the medical care is very spotty. We are just crossing into late 40’s, and starting to need more minor medical care, so I’m not sure if it has always been this way or if it is commiecare taking hold.
Our future is palliative care after the age of 70 for those who can’t afford to buy their own private care. Medicare will become the provider of this care. Obamacare will get us used to it.
The corrupt and rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the oligarchs who own our politicians mold our national policies and system in only their interests. “ Their interests” is about their benefit, including cheap labor, changing our anglo culture, stuffing America full of illegals, and having our politicians kowtowing on their personal leash.
I don’t hate the rich, I don’t hate the poor, but I really resent it when my democracy is open to the highest bidder where anyone can buy and control our politicians for their personal benefit, such as pushing policies of importing 3rd world poverty to our national detriment, just so they get cheap labor.
A working companion younger than me went on vacation with his wife and family. When he returned he had a severe pain in his back, so he went to his long term family doctor while visiting his parents.
The doctor concluded that the problem was my friend was setting on his billfold wrong. so he moved his billfold to his breast pocket. The pains continued.
When he got to his home he went to his own personal doctor who found he was eaten up with cancer. He died not long after.
I have been misdiagnosed a few times so am very cautious bout what a doctor says.
They make ridiculous diagnoses because they don’t do basic diagnostic tests. Either the person doesn’t qualify for a test, or they may have already used up their allotment of tests up for the month (or whatever time period).
Pretty girl. What a shame. RIP.
Murdering quacks.
Well in the US I don’t think the era of defensive medicine is quite yet over.
In Britain it certainly is.
But my greater point is that in non-socialized medicine this poor girl could have sought a second opinion. In her socialist hell hole she was stuck with her GP and his deliberately uninformed opinion.
But I agree with you that we are headed down this well-worn path to inferior healthcare. And the Republican Congress we elected to undo Obama Care seems to be so craven as to leave Obama Care in place despite the obvious mandate given them to scrape the disaster.
Maybe, *if* the symptoms present as severe. Otherwise, there are many things it *might* be, many of which are temporary and not severe. This is one of the major reasons that liver, pancreas, colon, kidney and stomach cancers kill, is by the time anyone realizes what they are, it is too late.
This means that doctors have to use discriminators to narrow down what a disease that *is* presenting serious symptoms might be.
Age windows. Had she been older than 50, they would have looked for cancer, because the vast majority of cancers of these types happen after 50.
Had members of her family had stomach or other forms of cancer, this is also a big indicator. Japanese doctors are always on the look out for stomach cancer, because the Japanese eat a lot of smoked fish, so stomach cancer is common.
But cancer is rare in teens. And the most common of those rare cancers is bone cancers, leukemia, brain tumors and lymphoma. Stomach cancer in teen girls is extremely rare.
I agree it’s not obvious. But I find the doctors response without even really knowing the girl to be condescending.
She knew she wasn’t on a skinny regime, she should not have accepted the diagnosis of one WORTHLESS, IDIOT posing as a doctor.
Just another thing the doctors say when they can't find what is wrong.
Get that in your jacket, and it will be hard to get another doctor to take a serious look at you.
There are MANY crap doctors around, and have been for centuries. Socialized medicine sucks but you can’t blame pure stupidity on that. My mother had ovarian cancer, and was told for months by her idiot doctor that she had a bladder infection. Months! And he never followed up with more tests or sent her to a gyn. (I was living in another state at the time and she never told me on the phone what was going on.) By the time we got a proper diagnosis for her, she was only two weeks from her death. Far too sick to be treated successfully.
Sorry for the rant. I’m lucky now that our family has several excellent docs (that I hope we don’t lose to Obamacare). But doctor stupidity has been around for a long time.
That Radiologist had his license yanked for....get this...being basically legally blind; but only after a nurse who worked at the facility suffered a similar misdiagnosis.
Bile duct cancer is BAD, so not saying that earlier diagnosis would have changed his outcome much...but by the time he ended up in a decent hospital it was too late for much of anything. He was dead in less than three months at 62.
Morons abound in all aspects of society...people need to understand that and act accordingly.
“I’m not here to say they could have saved Georgia because it was so aggressive...”
The deluded Brits just can’t bring themselves to criticize their beloved NHS. A good slave knows his place in the social order.
>>I predict the day will come when there will be a bonus for allowing patients to die and/or encouraging them to agree to be euthanized.
That day is already here in the Netherlands, and is almost here in the UK. Except the euthanasia will happen at home. The refusal of care will be positioned as “transition to palliative care”.
NHS feels the strain as hospital bed-blocking by elderly patients hits record levels
Jane Merrick
Sunday 22 March 2015
Bed-blocking is causing a huge strain on the NHS, with more than one million hospital bed days lost because of delayed discharges in the past year, new figures revealed last night.
The number of days health managers are forced to keep patients in hospital because they cannot be transferred into the community has risen by nearly 20 per cent in a year and is now at a record level, at a cost to the NHS of £287m.
Labour blamed the delays and bed-blocking on cuts to social care budgets, which have been reduced by £3.5bn since 2010. They argued it was a false economy to cut social care because it meant more elderly people were being admitted to hospital instead of being cared for at home. In turn, the same group of patients were being transferred back home less quickly because of reductions in social care services....
She was anorexic and it fit the symptoms. So should every Doctor now do a Freaking
Biopsy on every damn anorexic female and charge 30k now just for a visit to
cover their ass?
And we wonder why healthcare skyrockets, it's because even some Conservatives are
to damn stupid to accept Fate and expect Doctors to be freaking miracle workers.
Then go out and bitch and moan about it.
Well, you cannot have it both ways, so really, STFU before our costs get bigger because
all of you are pushing a simple doctor visit into a full body Biopsy!
Really, WTF!
Doctors should admit that they kill patients. It would be good if EHR someday allows us to see the Iatrogenic Kill Rate for a doctor, like a negative batting average.
No it isn't. It's because:
The government forces hospitals to deliver expensive services to parasites who pay nothing, the resultant subsidies do not cover costs, so in turn the hospitals gouge paying customers (cost shifting)
-AND-
Democrat initiated public policy, forces insurance companies to accept already sick and dying applicants, and faggots who have deliberately destroyed their own health, and charge us all (healthy average people) the same basic premiums. (guaranteed issue/community rating)
You make a valid point, *except* there is nothing in this article that actually states she was anorexic. Nor does it state that she was deliberately trying to lose weight.
Note that the *doctors* assumed she was anorexic based on her being skinny and throwing up after meals. IOW, skinny + barfing + teen female = anorexia. Regardless of what the teen or her family says. Nowhere that I can see does it say anything indicating she was voluntarily or deliberately exhibiting anorexic behavior.
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