Cachexia sure does make one look pale.
Welcome to government run health care. Which is an oxymoron.
That’s why they can still be called quacks...
“My hope now is that she didn’t die in vain,” she said.
Sorry, dear lady, but your daughter is just another victim of the socialized medicine of which so many in your country is proud.
Unless your daughter becomes the rallying cry to abolish socialized medicine she has died in vain.
I suspect it would be just as easy for doctors in the US to miss stomach cancer in a teen girl.
“The average age of people when they are diagnosed is 69. About 6 of every 10 people diagnosed with stomach cancer each year are 65 or older.”
“A major cause of stomach cancer is the bacteria Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), which is also a major cause of stomach ulcer.”
Those below the age of 30 often show far fewer symptoms that suggest stomach cancer. One thing that could have helped the diagnosis is if stomach cancer was common in her family, if she smoked, ate a lot of smoked fish and other smoked meat. Beyond that, physical palpitation of the stomach can indicate hardness or unusual lumps.
So the bottom line is that missing that she had stomach cancer would be easy to do.
That’s nationalized health care for you.
Honestly, I hate to say this, but these things are not uncommon. People have got to take charge of their own health and the health of their families. You can’t simply sit back and wait for the system to rescue you.
I recently had back surgery and the 3 weeks leading up to it was one medical horror story after another. I have great insurance coverage and great doctors, and I still had issues getting offices to communicate, transfer records, prescribe the right medication, etc. Almost sent me to the loony bin. :-)
Horrid.
Negligence resulting in death used to be malpractice. Now it gets you a bonus.
The self-loathing West treats its own people like scum & rewards the law-breakers hence this girl is just another member of the British hegemony. Beautiful girl....heartbreaking.
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.
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.
“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.