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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I would hunt that doctor down and beat him to death with my bare hands.
L
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