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 coroner’s 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 daughter’s 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-May’s 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".
Welcome to single payer.
How many millions must the doctor pay based on her word?
Nice.
All sarcasm aside, though, what motivation does a doctor in a socialist system have to perform any work outside his assigned shift?
This is in the UK. Lord knows how they operate over there, but it’s not good. And I doubt they can sue, and if they can it won’t be the payday it is in the US.
Don’t be late, it’s rude.
“and she was let down by the failures in the system,”
Incorrect. The system worked exactly as intended.
L
Libs want to bring that type of health care here.
Dreadful story. And I’m sure no British doctor ever keeps a patient waiting.
Since she didn’t have a car, it’s likely she waited on slow performing public transportation.
cock, anyway
I’m a little confused, too. She knew she didn’t have a car, and presumably she knew how long it would take the reach the clinic, so why did she make an appointment earlier than she could get there?
That said, I assume they saw the next patient in line earlier, rather than spending the time sitting on their thumbs, so they should have had time for the young girl.
If you can even get an appointment. I had to wait 4 days with raging ear ache and swollen head. The ER wasn’t much better.
it’s England, there’s no tort lawyers. Tough shit if the NHS kills you to teach you a lesson about punctuality.
You should know about being rude.
That’s what you get when the government is in charge of medical care. It is the only option, like the DMV, and doesn’t care if you don’t like the service. There is no other place to go for better service.
The NHS is in big trouble. The American media deliberately and intentionally refuses to let the American public know about the insanely long waits for medical care.
She called to make an appointment, they said be here in fifteen minutes and she said I might not be able to get there that fast.
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