tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1779114135419830547.post388136420665340745..comments2024-01-25T06:40:28.903+00:00Comments on National Death Service: Man sent home from hospital died after being given wrong diagnosisAntiCitizenOnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00017073518049848696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1779114135419830547.post-76901964191616060252010-02-16T21:50:22.771+00:002010-02-16T21:50:22.771+00:001. We don't claim to be medical experts, this ...1. We don't claim to be medical experts, this is a scrapbook blog without any particular agenda.<br /><br />2. None of us have 'bitched' about what we spend on actual healthcare - but only two-thirds of the NHS budget goes on actual healthcare.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1779114135419830547.post-58433820310633155892010-02-15T23:55:59.637+00:002010-02-15T23:55:59.637+00:00If 2 doctors who independently assessed him it was...If 2 doctors who independently assessed him it was clearly not going to be picked up. It is a devastating occurrence but is unavoidable.<br />Unless of course you want all patients scanned and screened for everything... Oh no, wait, you're bitching about the cost of the NHS as well...Piehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09082317469698568486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1779114135419830547.post-37991288630297890582009-11-08T19:41:04.286+00:002009-11-08T19:41:04.286+00:00You ask how 2 doctors failed to "notice the p...You ask how 2 doctors failed to "notice the problem", but you very deliberately do not quote the consultant who stated in the article that Mr Sharma's symptoms were in every way "consistent with norovirus" and that they had looked for warning signs which could have suggested a more serious condition but "in this case there was nothing".<br />You assume that different diseases present differently but at early stages everything from depression to a ruptured aorta can present with being unwell with abdo pain, as Mr Sharma had. Sometimes the doctors do everything right but they still cannot win.<br />Mr Sharma's death is a tragedy, but that does not mean incompetence was the cause. I shall be interested to see the results of the inquestAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15011808761584365936noreply@blogger.com