Posted on 06/09/2019 7:05:05 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Mother-of-two, 29, dies of cervical cancer after doctors 'took 10 MONTHS to diagnose her despite being told about her constant bleeding' (Full Title)
[This IS Health Care run by the Government Bureaucracy.]
Josephine Suffolk, ...died on May 18 less than a year after diagnosis.... 'I feel like I have been so let down by my doctors'. The NHS lists abnormal bleeding as the top symptom but hers was dismissed. [She] died after doctors took 10 months to diagnose her cervical cancer after dismissing bleeding as a hormonal problem. ~snip~
She had been trying to raise awareness about cervical cancer after her own diagnosis, which only served to tell her it was too late to be cured. Doctors reportedly didn't pick up on the signs ... even though ... unusual bleeding Is the number one symptom of the disease. 'Josey' said she had to go back to her doctor 'four or five times' before they referred her to a specialist who diagnosed her with cervical cancer.~snip~
.... "For months they just went on and said there was nothing wrong.... [FINALLY] 'They put me onto another doctor who gave me a scan straight away. I was thinking "this is what should have been done six or seven months ago".'
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How do those advocates of it ignore the horrible system they put in place? Who in their right mind would want it here - BUT THEN - anyone who is a democrat isn’t in their right mind anyway. I don’t think Republicans are in favor of it. I wish we could send anyone who is a democrat and in need of a doctor to the UK for care...It ought to be required by law. I know - dream on!
FWIW, I was way more bugged by the don’t call us, we’ll write you attitude.
Great preventative care there.
They don’t igore it. They likely don’t use it for anything major/life-threatening.
Or they get bumped to the head of the line.
And with over, last I knew, a million people employed by the NHS, that’s a lotta votes for the status quo.
People with a cervix????
So a woman with cervix in tact, pretending to be a man... a She-He.
I thought they surgically remove the cervix with the rest of the plumbing when they trans.
I doubt it. Got to have permission first.
I used to go over there quite a lot. A guy I knew was peeing blood. So, he went to the doctor. The doctor got him into a urologist and they scoped his bladder-he had to wait for four or five months to get the clearance (NHS) for the procedure to be done. Had lesions in his bladder. Couldnt take a biopsy because they had to get permission first, from the NHS. So, after for or five months the clearance was given for them to do the biopsy. Went back in, they did it and yup, cancer. They then had to get permission to treat it. Another four or five months passed and by the time he went in the cancer had broken through the bladder wall and spread all through his system.
From start to till that time it was over a year. He died of cancer a short time later.
Another-from Dunoon, had to wait 18 months for s simple hernia repair. Another, from East Kilbride, had to wait several months to have his catheter removed after prostate surgery.
The guy from Dunoon got into a bad motorcycle accident. Messed up his nerves in his neck and sholder and he had a broken ankle and fractured bone in his leg. He was taken to a hospital in Glasgow and the accident happened when the Piper Alpha disaster happened. While in the ER, the Piper Alpha people started coming in and the ER head went down the isle and told him and several others they had to leave to make room. I asked him if they had to transfer him via ambulance to another place and he said no, he had to get a taxi. Broken shoulder, Nerve damage in his neck, broken ankle and a fractured bone in his leg. He managed to get back to Dunoon to the area hospital-if you could call it that, and they patched him up. The doctor wanted ot get him into a MRI for the neck injury and shoulder but, there was NO MRISs within the whole of Scotland. Matter of fact, he told me that there was only a few in the whole of the UK.
He was over here visiting me and he had gotten visitors medical insurance for the trip. I took him to Marquette General and they did the MRI and offered to fix the nerve damage and his hernia. That, within the first week of his arrival here.
He chickened out, but took all the info back to Scotland when he left and dealt with it all there.
I was referring to the idiots in this country who think it’s a swell idea for us - USA. I should have made that clear. My daughter has friends in England with health problems and they pay for what they need outside that system. She belongs to a support group of migraine suffers several of whom are in the UK. They tell her tales of unbelievable stupidity - on the part of patients!! If they are expected to pay $7.00 for something to do with their care, they throw a fit because it shouldn’t come OUT OF THEIR POCKET but the governments. We’ve already prepped the idiots in this country to follow the same thinking.
I don’t know how it works there but remember under Hillary’s plan in the 90’s, it would have been against the law to seek care outside the system she was pushing! Golly - that was a “first” loss for Hillary, wasn’t it?
A person can declare herself a man - or a flying squirrel, I guess - without any physical interventions. “Flying squirrels with cervixes ...”
Wow.
J. MacEwan, C.Ewen, and C Macgregor.
Those are the names.
Back in the late 80's or early 90's, after a yearly pap smear, I was told there were questionable cells in my cervix. I underwent Cryoconization...they froze my cervix. I'm 71 now, and never had an abnormal pap smear since that treatment. They don't even do pap smears on someone my age anymore...and that's just fine with me.
It took about the same time for them to diagnose mine...after three trips to the emergency room between July and August. My surgery didn't take place until October. I didn't have stones...I had grainy sand in mine. And they couldn't do mine laparoscopically because I'd already had three other abdominal surgeries in the past. But at least I still got to go home the next day.
The gastroenterologist that did the initial colonoscopy, told him he wished my son had come to see him 10 years earlier, but then went on to say, it probably wouldn't have mattered, because they don't begin screening anyone at 38, which is how old he would have been at the time. My Dad had colon polyps twice, was a smoker, but none of them were ever cancerous. He eventually died of lung cancer though. So did my Mom and one of my sisters.
My youngest son started smoking in his teens. I was the only one in my family that never smoked, yet I've had my own problems with diverticulitis, which caused a perforated bowel in 2010. I ended up with a temporary colostomy, which was reversed three months later. I've never had any polyps, nor has my other son who has never smoked, but he has suffered from IBS over the years. Because of my father's polyps, we both began getting screened at the age of 50.
I want people to know how important it is, that if anyone has a history of polyps in their family, they should be screened as early as possible.
That’s a bad story. It took FOUR months to diagnose my gall bladder.
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I have seen four people in the last six years who went septic with gallbladders or appendix becasue of poor clinical skills coupled with the slavish following of clinical decision trees despite other symptoms.
there is a reason they do this ... it is to kill off the patients. It is a lot less expensive to treat a stage four terminal cancer than a stage 1 2 or 3 cancer.
We have colon cancer in my family, too. I got my first colonoscopy at 43. No cancerous polyps so far.
Bingo!
Here’s hoping they never appear. I also have GERD and Barrett’s Esophagus, and have to go for an Endoscopy, at least once a year. On the year that I’m due a colonoscopy, my doctor does them both at the same time.
Thanks for sharing that, you may save a life with that advice.
Is that true for England? In some countries with socialized medicine physicians cannot take money to do additional tests.
Poor lady. RIP.
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