A BABY girl died hours after doctors failed to diagnose meningitis

[gWaPito]

Who said g Parry didnt have the facts? The fact is I read the story yesterday in the mail so, it must be true. We all all human Joe, even our Florence Nightingale's, we all make mistakes, a baby died as a result of one of there mistakes. Im not sure what the remainder of Joe's post had to do in relation to the thread title? Hey Doc, I bet you go down a storm at parties only joking. Yes, its every parent worse nightmare. I remember when I was working in the Stroud valley back in the early 80's 5 children were killed by this condition in as many weeks. You would of thought lessons would of been learn't alas, not At least with the modern tech we have today, we can at least help ourselves

[joebloggs]

We all all human Joe, even our Florence Nightingale's, we all make mistakes, a baby died as a result of one of there mistakes. Im not sure what the remainder of Joe's post had to do in relation to the thread title?

its to do with blame, like the tv ad "wheres there's blame, theres a claim"

yes their only human, maybe they should look into why accidents happen, one reason maybe the hours they have to work sometimes..

my misses left 7pm friday, came back 11am saturday, left 7pm on saturday came back 11am today and left again at 7pm tonight,shes be back home tomoz at 11am

[gWaPito]

Thats too many hours Joe. With my 2 hour round trip, im doing on average 16 hour working 'day' but, im doing a simple job, not the stress your wife is under, nowhere near! Something will give Joe if those hours are kept up. I just saying we are all human and thats what humans do, make mistakes. None of us are perfect. I know Joe, you are standing up for your wife and her profession like all good husbands do

[joebloggs]

Thats too many hours Joe. With my 2 hour round trip, im doing on average 16 hour working 'day' but, im doing a simple job, not the stress your wife is under, nowhere near! Something will give Joe if those hours are kept up. I just saying we are all human and thats what humans do, make mistakes. None of us are perfect. I know Joe, you are standing up for your wife and her profession like all good husbands do

thankfully she doesnt have to do them hours too often but there is A rota so usually someone she works with is doing them hours

as for treatment a couple of months ago i went to A&e with chest pains, i was being treated within 20 mins, spent the next 24hrs being monitored, i've got no complaints at all.

secondly, that could be one of the problems, large teaching hospitals, they will have so many junior docs that they dont get to do all the procedures or not as often as those in 'quieter' hospitals.

my misses told me that where she works, i young junior doc had moved from london to lancaster to gain more experience as in london she was competing against to many other junior docs..

[gWaPito]

Hi Pete/London, I just read your post. What we all got to remember is, is could happen to anyone of us, like it has to you. I think we all know, like Joe pointed out, its not the staff, its the cost cutting by successive governments past and now present. Shame on them.

[Pete/London]

Agreed mate, the health service has been a political football for generations and the allocated money being spent many times in the wrong places.

[Pete/London]

I don`t have much confidence in our hospitals and its just been confirmed by experience of my ex wife`s treatment that I have commented on in another thread. She spent 4 weeks in one of our largest teaching hospitals in London and following 4 brain scans, 2 lumber punctures, and 3 MRIs she was discharged from hospital with the diagnosis that she may have had a minor stroke, a virus or dementia. She is now at home with daily homecare, and thankfully is improving slowly.
They could not identify the virus as they did not take the lumber punctures soon enough, also she was given medicine in hospital that required the patient to be fully hydrated when in fact she had not had any liquids for nearly 24 hrs. If none of her family were there she would not have been fed and they had to make a fuss to ensure liquids or a drip was given promptly.
It also seems that a most of the consultants were not around at the weekends and the hospital is run by a skeleton crew of doctors on Sat and Suns.
By the way, at least when I visited, at least 50% of the nurses were filipino male and female.
It just seems that our hospitals are overloaded with patients, some staff that care and others that have a blase attitude but it all seems to be in a mess.
I expect to be deluged with stories of praise for our health service now, but I can only speak for my own experiences. I went for private treatment during last year and had to remind my consultant for the results of a biopsy that he had forgotten to enter into his notes. Stay healthy or go to France/Germany when your ill.