'It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable : unitedkingdom

[-] adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 27 points 6 months ago

Fuck.

My wife and I were in this A&E 3 days later. She'd new lower body numbness appear some months into a broken back recovery. 101 said go straight there, this is a no fuck around situation.

We get there and are advised it's a 12 hour wait, the place is rammed, ambulances are queuing and the corridors are full of gurneys and paramedics.

My wife at this point is in tears. The broken back means sitting for an hour on a shit waiting room chair is hard work. 12 literally can't happen.

So we leave. What else can we do.

The situation was fucking awful, but I don't blame the staff. I felt genuinely bad for all of them - there was just a complete lack of hope on any of their faces.

[-] Devi@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

That's awful.

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

How's she now? What was the cause of the numbness?

[-] adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 4 points 6 months ago

Long story short the MRI showed no impinging of the cord so we were told to just monitor it. It's slowly fading.

The long story is that the next day the GP repeated 111's advice so we bundled up pillows and painkillers and, still very upset, we went back. After an hour the triage nurse told us that all the GP needed to do was a referral by email and we would have been admitted straight to the spinal unit.

She then rang the GP and actually tore them a new one. It was highly satisfying.

We spent the rest of the day in spinal, her on a bed, and got seen by excellent staff who did more explaining about the injury and what to expect than anyone else had done to that point. We were in limbo about the whole thing till then.

[-] gabrielle@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

Utterly heartbreaking read, my sincerest condolences to her sister and family. Made all the more heartbreaking by the fact that these stories seem to be getting more and more common.

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago

Damn. NHS struggling feels like being half the news coming out from the UK, but I never expected it to be this bad.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

She sat through the night at Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham after arriving at 10.30pm on 19 January with severe headache, dizziness, high blood pressure and vomiting.

When Briede moved back home in 2008, her twin sister stayed on, gaining GCSEs, steady work in Nottingham and becoming the mother of two sons, now aged 13 and 11.

Rublite called for an ambulance but was told none were available, and as she was too ill to drive, she asked her work colleague and nextdoor neighbour, Rasa Balzonyt, to take her.

On that evening, she said Rublite felt dizzy and threw up during the drive to hospital, and when they arrived at about 10.30pm she was checked over by a nurse who took her temperature and blood pressure.

Calculations by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) found that almost 14,000 people died needlessly last year in England while waiting in A&E for up to 12 hours.

Dr Keith Girling, medical director at Nottingham university hospitals NHS trust, which includes the QMC, said: “I offer my sincere condolences to the family at this difficult time.

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[+] Devi@kbin.social -9 points 6 months ago

I'd love to know where she was. If she was just in the waiting room surely they'd see her?

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 months ago

Rublite died after being found unconscious under her coat in an A&E waiting room more than eight hours after arriving.

[-] Devi@kbin.social -3 points 6 months ago

Not what I meant, like was she in the toilet, hidden in some way, etc. This is discussed in the article that they won't give specifics to her sister or let her see the footage.

[+] Blamemeta@lemm.ee -12 points 6 months ago

At what do you guys start mass protesting for better healthcare? Hell, America is better, because expensive healthcare is better tha none.

[-] Devi@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago

I'd definitely disagree that America is better, for a lot of reasons.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 points 6 months ago

Because the British people that vote, vote primarily for parties that are seeking to destroy the NHS, because they've been trained to believe it exists entirely to employ and treat Them. The Others. Their Kind. You know The Ones.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah better none for some based on money than none for some randomly. Oh but us also has the randomly shit.

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee -5 points 6 months ago

American doctors will treat you regardless of ability to pay. Theyll just hurt your credit score afterwards

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

nope. that is a fallacy. if you will literally die in the short term an emergency room will treat you. otherwise who knows. Just had an ENT not take us because we would not put down a credit card. This is after growths were found in the sinuses.

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