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10-02-2015, 04:23 PM
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"It's Just Stress, Sir!"
A 37yo old Indian man turned up at A&E (ER) with abdominal pain that he'd been suffering with for four months. It became severe three days prior to A&E admission. The patient's findings were clear chest sounds, abdomen soft upon palpitation, normal ECG and blood counts all normal. He was sent home with a conclusion of heightened anxiety and Zantac and 5mg valium. His condition got worse and he toddled off to another A&E but was denied access to a doctor as he was deemed not an emergency by the receptionist. He was found dead in bed the next morning.   To cut a LOT of waffle short, his abdomen was full of discoloured serous fluid, his abdominal organs had lost their natural colour and were congested with inflammatory fluids, blah blah blah... he was turned away from A&E with a fatal infection and had TB as well! Abdomen was rife with infection and went unnoticed despite routine tests  |
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10-02-2015, 04:25 PM
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
Family needs a good lawyer
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10-02-2015, 04:30 PM
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
Imagine what type of evironment it must be when the receptionists are the gatekeepers of your healthcare. Truely disgusting in their neglegence.  |
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10-02-2015, 04:52 PM
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
He was turned away, which is unfortunate, but was he a goner anyway? I'm no doctor, but I have to wonder if they really could have done anything for him anyway, other than postponing the inevitable.
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10-02-2015, 05:50 PM
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 NOT THE BOSS Poster Rank:32 ᴀᴅᴍɪɴɪᴤᴛʀᴀᴛᴏʀ Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 47,730
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
Sounds like something that would happen over here in the shitty NHS.
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10-02-2015, 06:08 PM
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
Sounds like a situation I heard about a couple months ago. Same situation with pain in stomach and being sent home repeatedly from the ER with "just gas". Turned out the guy had an aneurysm on stomach which ruptured while at work. Did not make it but the people at the place said it was horrible to watch. And no, no one took pictures.
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10-02-2015, 10:46 PM
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
Isn't TB a "lung" disease????? and highly contagious???
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10-02-2015, 11:57 PM
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
Yea, this narrative doesn't seem to match someone dying of tuberculosis. The classic symptoms of TB are fever, weight loss, and a chronic phlegmy, often bloody, cough.
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10-03-2015, 12:04 AM
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
I was thinking some kind of rotten ulcer, with infection. But I'm no 'receptionist'.  |
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10-03-2015, 01:30 AM
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 ✝Mudderator from Hell✝ Poster Rank:10 e-mail Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 96,685
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Re: "It's Just Stress, Sir!"
that shows that stress can kill.
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