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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Do they not do annual Pap tests in the UK?
During Trumps visit to GB they kept saying NHS was on the table then off table during negotiations. What was that about?
That was the bad news. The good news was that she didn’t have to pay for it.
“Single payer health would destroy the quality of the American health care system in its entirety, make no doubt about that.”
Of course it would. That’s the objective.
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Poor thing. She should've spend her last days raising the awareness of the dangers of socialized medicine.
Bump
What did you get for Christmas?
A Laporoscopic Cholycystecomy.
IDK< probably, they offer annual pap smears.
But this patient came in exhibiting the NUMBER ONE sign for cervical cancer and they were dismissive, rather than ordering a scan to rule out a rapidly progressive fatal disease.
It’s inexcusable. Poor thing. If she had $$$, she could have paid for her own test and with that documentation, received treatment.
They don’t past a certain age in the USA either. Once your child bearing yrs are over, try finding a OB/GYN. You need that GYN part. They send me to the URO/GYN if I have a issue now. I’ve had a full hysterectomy and Pap Smears are not usually done afterwards. But you still get other things like UT’s, bladder or rectum prolapses.
That happens here too. We are not immune to false diagnosis.
Of course, that’s why there are lawsuits against doctors and hospitals. With government healthcare, there is no accountability or repercussions for bad medicine and the damages which occur.
When I worked in the NHS in the mid-80’s, a pap was only offered every 3 years during the child-bearing years. Obamacare made that the rule/law here, too. None offered after age 65, here now, too. If ladies want a pap, all you have to do is complain of ‘symptoms’. Pain, bleeding, etc. Be vigilant in taking care of yourselves. Doctors don’t have time to give you these days, after the Obamacare requirements.
What gets more votes, treating one person who’s causing global warming (by having kids), or immunizing 1000 kids?
bttt
She must have had some mutant extra fast growing version, otherwise this would have been detected years earlier by gyn exam and pap smear.
Cervical cancer usually is detectable 6 to 10 years before it becomes so enmeshed with internal organs it can’t be stopped.
Lost my Mother in Law to the slow growth version because she neglected her own health to take car of her selfish, chain-smoking, emphysema-patient husband.
She collapsed when her kidneys both shutdown from obstructed ureters, and the dialysis and radiation treatments left her too weak for the massive surgery that would have been needed to extricate the tumor from her abdomen.
Within a few months her small bowel became obstructed and she basically starved to death. Mother in Laws stereotypically have a bad rap. She was no angel, but she really was a wonderful grandmother to my two kids. I wouldn’t wish that kind of death on my worst enemy, let alone a decent, caring person.
Thanks to both of you for the additional information!
All women and people with a cervix aged 25 to 64 should be invited by letter.
Don't call us. We'll write you.
Oh, boy.
Let's hear it for single payer.
“Women and people with a cervix.”
Egad!
Last I knew the NHS is the largest employer in the UK.
A big reason why there’s so little money for decent patient care....?
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