“Mia moglie è morta di parto ma non le è stato detto che le era stata somministrata un’overdose di farmaci in travaglio”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24gk2x51xo
di topotaul
“Mia moglie è morta di parto ma non le è stato detto che le era stata somministrata un’overdose di farmaci in travaglio”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24gk2x51xo
di topotaul
6 commenti
Has to be investigated as both manslaughter and medical malpractice.
Once again, Scottish Government doing everything but actually raising standards of medical staff and hospitals, increasing staffing, improving staff conditions, or increasing the budget for front facing staff/clinical equipment. Let’s just review after review, not disclose what actual action has been taken, leave decisions on budgets to completely unaccountable IJBs, and say because it’s improved compared to 20 years ago (?!?!? I’d fucking hope so!!!) it’s fine.
This brand of gross neglect and incompetence has been going on in the NHS for years. It’s nothing new. You get a tragedy that makes the news. It’s about neglect by nurses or doctors. The trust is quoted as being saddened and promises to improve services and care levels. Nothing improves. Rinse and repeat. Sometimes I think staff purposely fail to do their jobs.
Very hard to get a prosecution as the medical profession has a more protective standard of care under democracy/tort; not if the action would have been done by another, but would another medical practitioner have likely done the same. Otherwise no one would do the job.
Obviously depends on the circumstances and how obvious the overdose was
There’s tragedy here but there’s also a ton of mis information about what happened.
>The FAI concluded that it was possible, but not probable, that Jacqui’s death could have been prevented if she had been given the correct dose
So a mistake got made but it wasn’t a cause. Now the argument is would that information have helped the family to know early or know once the investigation has completed like what happened.
I fear if we continue on this type of path of media extremism we’re going to end up left with the American system.
Would be interested to know the cause of the overdose – was it human error, poor English, overworked staff, record keeping etc?
Poor record keeping saw me almost double dosed in A&E once. Needed meds every so many hours while I waited for a bed. Had had my second dose, then got called into the side/treatment room to be given this medication again. The nurse was incredibly annoyed at me for insisting I’d already been given this drug 30 mins earlier and that I didnt want a second dose. “You can refuse treatment if you want.” I said I wanted treatment, it that I’d already been given that specific medication half an hour ago into my IV. She huffed, went away to speak to someone and then came back to very calmly say “you were already given this medication, please go sit in the waiting room and when you are due another dose, then we can give it to you.” Like I was the one asking to be overdosed!!!
If I’d been unwilling to piss a nurse off or not been entirely sure what I’d been given before, I might’ve accepted her side of the story and been overdosed. It’s a good thing the initial dose 30 mins before had perked me up a little!
It’s scary how often other people have a similar story when I tell this, and how varied the causes seem to be.