[Red Badger]

Alina Sarag died of tuberculosis after her GP claimed she was 'lovesick' Photo: Newsteam

Isn't Socialized Medicine, AKA OBAMACARE, wonderful?......

[miss marmelstein]

Wouldn’t a simply x-ray have cleared this up??

[Signalman]

SOCIALIZED MEDICINE STRIKES AGAIN.

WELCOME TO OBAMACARE.

[Da Coyote]

Repeat after me....progressives know more than you do.

[mongo141]

Coming to the USA if Omarxist has his way and the SCOTUS caves to his threats.

[pricilla]

"Dr Sharad Shripadrao Pandit"

Now THERE'S a good old English Midlands name /s...

[Texas Songwriter]

Tuberculosis is usually a slow incidious disease which manifests as a chronic productive or nonproductive cough. Very often hemoptysis is seen as the disease progresses. I would like to know if she became progressively hypoxic and dyspneic. Very often, in medicine, the last doctor to see the patient is the hero because he has the benefit of seeing the disease state well along in its manifestations. She should have lost weight, manifested a fever (of unknown origin), chronic cough, and a chest X-ray which showed apical cavitation of the lungs and lymphadenopathy. It would be difficult to write those physical findings as the findings of lovesickness in an adolescent.

It does seem, however, based upon a very superficial reading of this report that the family physician screwed the pooch and the child paid the price.

[dfwgator]

Coming soon to America if Obama is re-elected.

[Earthdweller]

There is no way this is a real MD...if it is, he should be jailed. No one could be that stupid..he did it purposely. I would look at murder charges.

[JusPasenThru]

That’s what happens when you bend the cost curve down.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

It is happening here in the U.S.A. The political "leadership" is bringing in thousands of foreign doctors. Fortunately, any reasonably educated American can recognize the foreign doctors by their ebony masks, rattles and feathers.

The area where I live is noteworthy for the lack of American physicians. The local doctors are all Hindu or Pakistani. Rather than go to the doctor locally I drive 75 miles. The local hospital is a notorious death house.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dreadful. Poor girl. RIP.

[Clintonfatigued]

If ObamaCare isn’t overturned, this could happen in the United States.

[bgill]

He added that he made more than 50 phone calls to the GP's surgery in Birmingham but Dr Pandit failed to return his calls.

What citizenship does the doctor hold and where was he educated? Call me racist but the name alone calls up red flags. Also, why did the father make 50 calls to the doctor whom he knew wasn't going to do anything. After the first 3 calls, he should have been signing up a new GP. How the heck could the hospital claim the TB history not been picked up if so many around her had it?

[LadyDoc]

actually, it is quite easy to miss TB, especially if it is a “primary” infection, which develops before the Body’s immune system kicks in (for TB this takes a few weeks)...

In primary TB, you develop a fuzzy pneumonia and a pleural effusion and then the TB can spread all over the body. I’ve seen (and missed) one case (who eventually got diagnosed by someone else when the “pneumonia” didn’t go away and she was referred to a specialist).

The problem is that the skin test for TB is negative in these primary cases, and since we rarely see TB in the US, you just don’t think of it.

What is typically seen in TB cases occurs after the body’s immune system gets going and “walls off” the TB infection, to stop the germ from spreading. Then you see thick walled abcesses in the upper lungs on x rays. Again, it’s a hard area to see on routine x rays but can be seen easily with a more expensive CT scan.

This can be missed, usually in someone who has TB scars from the past, but it is a “slow” disease. Often if we see pneumonia or old tB on X ray, and the person is coughing but not too sick, we usually just order sputums “just in case” and boy, do the nurses and family get upset when the sputums come back positive in six weeks, and they all need to be checked that they didn’t catch TB....

The only reason I am surprised the Tb was missed is that she is Asian, a high risk group, and her doc has a foreign name, probably from India, so he too should have seen cases and recognized. it.

But if it was a case of “primary” TB, he might have thought it was something else.

A doc trained in the US would probably miss it....

[Scotswife]

This highlights many things.
First, of course, the socialist system in UK sucks.
Second, when you drive your country’s doctors out of business, guess who migrates to your country to fill the void?
Third, the migrant-doctors don’t give a crap about women.