Posted on 09/14/2009 11:41:51 AM PDT by Charlespg
A retired teacher died of a burst stomach ulcer after a paramedic told her to ‘stop being such a drama queen’ and failed to take her to hospital, an inquest heard yesterday.
Mother-of-three Eileen Ellis-Whitfield, 63, died just hours after an ambulance was called to her home when she fell seriously ill with chronic stomach pains.
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was paramedics union?
Think of the money
Saved on the hospital stay...
A Success Story!
Yeah, the patient died,
But that’s not really the point.
They saved the money!
Shameless attention grabber!
No public pension, no social security, no medical costs. It’s win-win-win!
One of the guys in our office had a heart attack in the lunchroom one day. Two of us performed CPR until the paramedics arrived.
I have never seen two people care less about their jobs or the outcome as I have in these two individuals.
For all they cared, it was just a piece of meat lying on the floor.
Ouch!
Called at 1:00 AM
They arrived at 4:30
Nothing to see here...
Britain’s Last Export
Of any value is the
Cautionary Tale.
How DARE she die without government pre-approval!
Some people will die to get a little attention.
And then when the jury awards her relatives the damages, the judge can tell the paramedics, “Stop being a drama queen.”
Some ER doctors here aren’t that much better. Just the other day one asked why parents brought their kid in who suddenly had two seizures and another one on the way to the ER. It was like they were wasting his time.
Well, it’s not only the UK. I think it has to do with the fact that some health professionals don’t take women’s complaints as seriously as they take men’s.
A few years ago my husband called the paramedics when I was having trouble breathing. I was a week post surgery and the paramedics didn’t think it was worthy of investigation, thought it might be anxiety...why they came to that conclusion I’ll never know. My husband insisted I go to the hospital...diagnosis pneumonia in both lungs and a week long stay in the hospital on IV antibiotics.
I was ready to trust the paramedics and figure maybe it wasn’t that serious. So I think it might be a gender thing with certain health professionals figuring women are being...how did they put it, “drama queens.”
Just my 2 cents.
“David Tubb realised something was wrong at 1am when she appeared unwell and dialled 999 “
He might as well dialed ‘666’...
“Britain’s Last Export
Of any value is the
Cautionary Tale.”
Bingo!
Holy cow, I didn’t know “heartburn” could kill? Your stomach can burst? Of course, everyone and his brother knows that the British govt controlled health industry is a joke and an accomplice to murder but this is the first time I heard that acid indigestion can, over time, cause your stomach to explode.
Who told this older lady (63) to drop dead? A Muslim ambulance driver?
Paramedics stopped caring long before Obama was elected.
If that was my Mother or Grandmother I can tell you Exactly Who else would be laying there also.
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