Posted on 03/01/2018 1:32:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 5-year-old girl in Newport, Wales, died just hours after a doctor refused to see her because she was late to her appointment, according to the BBC.
The girl's mother, Shanice Clark, has been searching for answers since her daughter, Ellie-May, died from bronchial asthma in 2015, according to the New York Post. Thanks to a coroners inquest into her daughter's death, she was finally given some answers on Monday.
The coroner ruled that Grange Clinic missed the opportunity to provide potentially live-saving treatment to her child, Sky News reports.
Florida woman finds hidden camera in her fan The 5-year-old girl was reportedly not seen by a doctor, despite having an emergency appointment, because it operated a "10-minute rule."
Clark says that she and her daughter arrived only five minutes late because they didn't have a car. She says she warned them she might be late when she called the clinic.
According to the coroner, this was the first time the rule had been enforced in regards to an emergency appointment. Reports also state that Clark was reportedly told to come back in the morning without the doctor even looking at her daughters medical records, which would have shown that the child has a history of asthma.
From the evidence before me, it is not possible for me to determine with certainty whether an earlier intervention would have altered the outcome for Ellie, but nonetheless Ellie should have been seen by a [doctor] that day, and she was let down by the failures in the system, the coroner wrote.
According to the New York Post, Grange Clinic released a statement, saying: Dr. Rowe knows that nothing can be said to Ellie-Mays family to make a difference, but she would like to say how truly sorry she is.
The coroner plans to write a letter to the health board and the clinic in hopes of addressing the tragedy and preventing similar situations in the future. Additionally, a spokesman for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board told BBC it would be "inappropriate to comment whilst we await the coroner's report".
“My daughter can’t breathe can she see the doctor?”
“We have an opening in 20 minutes at 3:15.”
“Ok, I will take it. I may be a few minutes late because I don’t have a car.”
“Well then I’m afraid your daughter will have to die.”
“I can’t get there by 3:15. Can I have a later appointment?”
Yes, so sad but, the parent is responsible for this whole incident.
Or they may have been inundated with flu patients, double booked.
What!!!!????
LMAO!
LOL! The OP failed to delete the commercials embedded into the story.
Why didn’t the mother tell them she had asthma?
What!!!!????
Someone copy and pasted without proofreading. Naughty, naughty.
Then I would look away.
Most people don’t have the stroke to dictate my actions.
I assume even if she did arrive on time, she’d have sat in the waiting room for 2 hours, like usual.....
I dont know how things are in Britain but I can tell you I have waited more than an hour after my appointment time to see a doctor numerous times.
If a doctor refused to see me because I was a few minutes late we would have words. I may end up with a disturbing the peace charge but we would have words.
If he refused to see my sick kid because we were a few minutes late I might end up with a destruction of private property charge after I broke up his office furniture.
“why not go the the Emergency Room to begin with?”
Was listening to SiruisXM doctor radio a few years ago. They were discussing health care in the U.K. They said you can wait up 2 weeks to be seen in their E.R.s!
If my kid’s having an asthma attack, I would be in the E.R. making tons of noise. A least if her daughter started to do poorly she would be located at a place they could handle it immediately.
Meanwhile, the dr can and will make you sit in his office for hours, wasting YOUR time before seeing you.
I’m a cannibal. I eat human flesh. It nourishes me.
You can't sue the government so a mean letter is the best you can do.
I do the Dogtown Shuffle and live past it all.
Hubby goes to a doctor that belongs to a group that you pay extra for. Not as many patients. He books an hour for each patient so usually theres only 1 patient in the office at a time. Anyway, a couple of months ago hubby was in the room with the doc when the gal came rushing in to tell doc he had an emergency patient. An old man and his wife had shown up after he fell off a ladder.......and ripped his arms to shreds. They wanted to know what to do. Doc said GET TO THE ER! Lol
People really are not very bright.
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