*Later that day, Mrs Glynn took her daughter back to the surgery concerned over her condition and the doctor called a hospital for a second opinion.*
*The 37-year-old was advised to take Mia home as the hospital was full. She was sent home with antibiotics and was advised to give Mia fluids and ibuprofen.*
No-Wind6836 on
Not surprised, GP’s gate keep specialists, painkillers and blood test as if they were paying out their own pocket.
Cunts gave me 2 ibuprofens after a motorcycle crash whereas private healthcare gave me 2 years of continuous physical therapy.
Marcuse0 on
Absolutely horrifying. What can you do if you’ve gone to the GP twice about something and they’ve done nothing that you couldn’t have done yourself, then the hospital just sends you away without examination?
It’s not like this is a new thing either. Years ago my now wife fell and hit her head. We suspected a concussion, but the GP we regularly saw told us that it take weeks for her to get an xray if referred and to just turn up at A+E. We didn’t do that because we didn’t want to burden the hospital, but when she got worse we went to an out of hours doctor who also said to go to A+E.
When we got to A+E we were lectured by a nurse about how what we had wasn’t an accident or emergency so we shouldn’t really be there.
That’s when I snapped and asked exactly where should we go then? We’d been to our regular GP and the out of hours who’d both said to go there, and they say not to go there? Anyway, we never saw that nurse again and were treated in 5 mins by a doctor and sent on our way.
Seeing that the same attitude is still around and has resulted in a girl dying when she could have been saved if someone had looked at her is terrible.
hongyauy on
The GP recognised that their knowledge wasn’t adequate, appropriate escalated and phoned the hospital for a second opinion. The fault here should lie mostly with the hospital clinician who advised the patient to stay home as the “hospital was full”. However, the GP should have recognised how unwell the patient was and sent her straight to A&E. The hospital being full is not a valid reason to turn an unwell patient away.
BigSargeEnergy on
The headline feels a little misleading designed to drum up outrage. The GP sent her home…on advice of the hospital.
Automatic_Role6120 on
If you know your kid is ill, take them to a and e and don’t leave until they have been treated.
da_killeR on
There was a video today on LBC where Nick Ferrari was shocked how one of his callers would let an illegal migrant child drown instead of helping them (https://youtu.be/0LTW1bQe_lM?si=ZS33rBbj64IJerrT)
I can’t help but think that we essentially as a society decided to let this poor girl drown in the NHS system and she died from it.
It seems like as a society we are at a crossroads. We are no longer rich and powerful nor are we Great. Instead we are mediocre and now have to pick and choose who we save since it’s clear we are too broke to save both. Whom do you pick to save? The migrant drowning or the poor girl drowning the broken NHS?
Dry_Sandwich_860 on
Plenty of space for bed-blocking Boomers though who could sell their homes to get places in care homes.
Ill_Pain_1456 on
The inevitable outcome of Tory underfunding of the NHS to convince us privatisation is the only way to save it. That and an overwhelming population boom thanks to out of control immigration.
The NHS used to be something to be proud of. Capitalists have decimated it
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*Later that day, Mrs Glynn took her daughter back to the surgery concerned over her condition and the doctor called a hospital for a second opinion.*
*The 37-year-old was advised to take Mia home as the hospital was full. She was sent home with antibiotics and was advised to give Mia fluids and ibuprofen.*
Not surprised, GP’s gate keep specialists, painkillers and blood test as if they were paying out their own pocket.
Cunts gave me 2 ibuprofens after a motorcycle crash whereas private healthcare gave me 2 years of continuous physical therapy.
Absolutely horrifying. What can you do if you’ve gone to the GP twice about something and they’ve done nothing that you couldn’t have done yourself, then the hospital just sends you away without examination?
It’s not like this is a new thing either. Years ago my now wife fell and hit her head. We suspected a concussion, but the GP we regularly saw told us that it take weeks for her to get an xray if referred and to just turn up at A+E. We didn’t do that because we didn’t want to burden the hospital, but when she got worse we went to an out of hours doctor who also said to go to A+E.
When we got to A+E we were lectured by a nurse about how what we had wasn’t an accident or emergency so we shouldn’t really be there.
That’s when I snapped and asked exactly where should we go then? We’d been to our regular GP and the out of hours who’d both said to go there, and they say not to go there? Anyway, we never saw that nurse again and were treated in 5 mins by a doctor and sent on our way.
Seeing that the same attitude is still around and has resulted in a girl dying when she could have been saved if someone had looked at her is terrible.
The GP recognised that their knowledge wasn’t adequate, appropriate escalated and phoned the hospital for a second opinion. The fault here should lie mostly with the hospital clinician who advised the patient to stay home as the “hospital was full”. However, the GP should have recognised how unwell the patient was and sent her straight to A&E. The hospital being full is not a valid reason to turn an unwell patient away.
The headline feels a little misleading designed to drum up outrage. The GP sent her home…on advice of the hospital.
If you know your kid is ill, take them to a and e and don’t leave until they have been treated.
There was a video today on LBC where Nick Ferrari was shocked how one of his callers would let an illegal migrant child drown instead of helping them (https://youtu.be/0LTW1bQe_lM?si=ZS33rBbj64IJerrT)
I can’t help but think that we essentially as a society decided to let this poor girl drown in the NHS system and she died from it.
It seems like as a society we are at a crossroads. We are no longer rich and powerful nor are we Great. Instead we are mediocre and now have to pick and choose who we save since it’s clear we are too broke to save both. Whom do you pick to save? The migrant drowning or the poor girl drowning the broken NHS?
Plenty of space for bed-blocking Boomers though who could sell their homes to get places in care homes.
The inevitable outcome of Tory underfunding of the NHS to convince us privatisation is the only way to save it. That and an overwhelming population boom thanks to out of control immigration.
The NHS used to be something to be proud of. Capitalists have decimated it