Will never forget a nurse saying to me as I left one hospital after an event ‘don’t stop doing what you’re doing’ and when I said ‘I’m any relative at the side of bed every day, what’s different?’ he said ‘because it takes us away from that and makes us think’
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Presumably because of his irrational fear of being sued? My DVT was photodocumented-symptomatic for a couple of weeks pre-diagnosis. I'd asked at that time about ? DVT; as I had parental history of iliac DVT. But no idea that a DVT could be related to the shortness of breath etc.
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So just frightened they'd missed a diagnosis & might be sued? *sigh* We've got to create an atmosphere where without fear, clinicians feel compelled to be honest about mistakes and to react to them. To rectify them where possible. Minimise damage & anguish where not. Learn always
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The irony is, was that I asked to be treated like an NHS-diagnosed patient (he'd refused me d-Dimer or NHS investigations. So Bupa found DVT). Needed: access to help walking/mobility (walking boot, wheel chair etc; so less housebound) +NHS haematologists to diagnose mass earlier.
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We all get our own little areas of mini-expertise through experience on this journey, but I'm afraid this isn't mine. I get that you didn't have access to the help that you needed though, despite identifying the problems privately.
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