preventable death

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Words fail me :( I know I don't know what it is like to work in these emergency call centres, but surely 'safe rather than sorry' still applies. especially in the case of a child. I had very similar symptoms, although I could still just about talk when I called for the ambulance - they were with me in minutes. How could it be so different in another part of the country, and dealing with a child?
 
Made me very chocked up, I can't imagine how his parents feel it's just so sad and just shouldn't have happened :(
 
it remind me hoe gp sometimes are not good enough and as parent you dont want to exagerate but 99% of the time parents are wright!!!
 
Very sad, no words can say how shocked I am that in this day & age with allt he medical knowledge that things like this are still happening, thoughts go out to his family x
 
Such a sad tragic story.
 
so sad, especially in this day and age. i was misdiagnosed 2 or 3 times when i first became ill in 1991, it wasn't until i saw my actual GP that i was sent straight to hospital. they kept telling my mum i just had a virus and that she was being OTT. HA. she is a trained nurse, so yeah, she knew something was up with me.
 
shiv said:
so sad, especially in this day and age. i was misdiagnosed 2 or 3 times when i first became ill in 1991, it wasn't until i saw my actual GP that i was sent straight to hospital. they kept telling my mum i just had a virus and that she was being OTT. HA. she is a trained nurse, so yeah, she knew something was up with me.
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I also got misdiagnosed the day before i was admitted i went to A and E because i knew something was wrong, so saw the doctor explained i was tired, had no energy and a dry mouth and sicky throat. got diagnosed with gastro-indigestion or something and got sent home with GAVISCON! i tried to protest but he wasnt havin it....next day im in the hospital slipping into a coma and being told i have diabetes and all that doctor could say was "Well i misdiagnosed that one didn't i" !!!!! i tried to take some legal action against him as he almost cost me my life but i had no money for solicitors or anything, .... :(

The thing that got me was he even examined a urine sample surely he would have seen the keytones!!!

that story is awful...this stuff just shouldnt happen
 
Tragic ... My heart goes out to his parents and family

Heidi
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awful, just awful


and some of the misdiagnosis stories are disgusting too, makes me mad 😡

I was misdiagnosed for some time too, I remember seeing one doc and saying i was loosing a lot of weight but without trying. he laughed at me and said, "loosing weight without tryiing, thats a first", no questions, how much weight loss, how long, any other symptoms, nothing! I went home and cried. 😡
 
Its very sad. No child should be dying of Type 1 diabetes where it was so obviously preventable.
 
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