15-year-old schoolgirl died after 'doctor mistook tuberculosis for lovesickness'
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[quote]Alina Sarag was seen by more than five doctors at four different hospitals but medics failed to detect the curable disease.
Her distraught parents even called her GP more than 50 times about their daughter's ailing condition over a four-and-a-half month period before her death on January 6 last year.
An inquest heard that her GP, Dr Sharad Shripadrao Pandit, accused her parents of "mollycoddling" her.
Shockingly, he even claimed her symptoms were brought on because she was 'lovesick'.
Her distraught father, Sultan Sarag, 43, broke down as he told Birmingham Coroner's Court: "The doctor said to her 'Did you meet someone on holiday? Are you missing him?'
"She found it very distressing he was suggesting she was lovesick for a boy.
"He said all the problems were in her head and she should see a psychiatrist or spiritual healer.
"When he said that in front of her it totally broke her heart.
"He said she was only doing it to keep me at the house nursing her.
"He [Dr Pandit] said 'It is because of you that she is making it up'.
"He said when she was younger my attitude had a detrimental effect on her.
"I was running around looking after her, nursing her.
"He said 'She's only doing that to keep you in the house so you don't go from there'.
"That's what his explanation was."
Mr Sarag also claimed Dr Pandit refused to test his daughter for TB.
He told the inquest: "He said, 'We don't need these tests, we are not going to get them done either.'
"As you tried to progress he just totally changed the subject."
Mr Sarag - who is also being treated for TB - told the inquest his daughter vomited up to 10 times a day and had to be carried to bed "like an old woman with weak legs".
He added that he made more than 50 phone calls to the GP's surgery in Birmingham but Dr Pandit failed to return his calls.
Mr Sarag said: "There was mass neglect. The medical profession, as soon as they mess up they hide."
Alina first contracted TB in 2009 after a girl at her school was diagnosed with the illness.
She was prescribed a course of antibiotics at Birmingham Chest Clinic but medical staff never followed up her treatment.
Alina was struck down again in July 2010 after returning from a trip to Pakistan with her family.
The inquest heard a simple phlegm test would have shown Alina was suffering from TB but this was never carried out.
Instead, doctors shrugged off her family's concerns and told them Alina was suffering from a chest infection despite being classed as a "high risk" patient.
Alina's weight plummeted and at one point she was so ill she could only tolerate baby food.
After doctors at Heartland and City hospitals did not detect TB, Alina was admitted to Sandwell Hospital where she stayed for five days.
TB was picked up but no phlegm test was carried out and a chest X-ray was thought to have found a chest infection.
She later saw a clinical psychologist at Birmingham Children's Hospital but was in too much pain to complete the assessment.
On January 6, 2011 Alina was rushed to hospital after suffering breathing difficulties and she died of a cardiac arrest.
Following her death, Alina, who attended Golden Hillock School in Sparkhill, Birmingham, a clinical review revealed doctors missed repeated opportunities to diagnose her condition.
The family have enlisted Birmingham-based solicitors Irwin Mitchell.
The inquest, which is expected to take up to six days and call 20 witnesses, continues.
TIMETABLE OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
August 26, 2010: Alina referred to Heartland Hospital but given all-clear.
October 5, 2010: Alina referred to Birmingham Children's Hospital, but history of TB not picked up and hospital queried typhoid or an infection.
October 12, 2010: Alina transferred to Sandwell Hospital after going to City Hospital in Birmingham. She remains there for five days and TB is noted but sputum test not carried out.
October 30, 2010: Alina attended Birmingham Children's Hospital where doctors dismissed her condition was "psychological issue".
December 14, 2010: Saw clinical psychologist but was in such extreme pain that the psychologist could not complete the assessment.
January 6, 2011: Mr Sarag dials 999 after Alina has breathing difficulties but she dies of cardiac arrest. ENDS[/quote]
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The doctor sounds like a dick. I bet he had a case like that earlier in his career, and then decided to just base everything he sees on whether its love sickness or not from then on.
Did a mentally challenged caterpillar format this?
How the hell do five individual doctors, in at least three separate hospitals, never once test for something like tuberculosis when she was sick for over four months?
I mean the "vomiting up to ten times a day" would be a pretty good indicator that something is fucking wrong, I would think.
I hope Pandit gets his damn medical license revoked, if not given judiciary punishment for gross medical neglect and misconduct. He even actively said "we don't even need to do tests for TB, and we aren't going to do them," and consigned vomiting up to ten times a day as a purely psychological issue. What the hell.
[b]Especially[/b] since someone in the school she went to contracted tuberculosis, something I am [b]positive[/b] these hospitals would have in their records. I would think it'd be standard fucking procedure to test for something like that when someone who goes to the same school as a known contractor of tuberculosis started to succumb to symptoms common to tuberculosis in a short time-period after the documented contraction.
Not to mention it sounds like, from the article at least, the test for whether she had tuberculosis was simple and probably fairly inexpensive. So why the hell did they never once do it? Especially since, as I already said, there's a known and documented case of a contraction of tuberculosis at the school she went to? Wouldn't this be a standard procedure for something like this?
Where the hell did these damn practitioners get their degrees? [url]www.printamedicaldegreenow.scam?[/url]
At least in my county, even [I]first responders[/I] are told to check for the symptoms of tuberculosis, because it's one of the few diseases that's [I]really[/I] obvious.
jesus christ, those doctors should lose their jobs and dr pandit should face some heavy jail time
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;35974554]How the hell do five individual doctors, in at least three separate hospitals, never once test for something like tuberculosis when she was sick for over four months?
I mean the "vomiting up to ten times a day" would be a pretty good indicator that something is fucking wrong, I would think.
I hope Pandit gets his damn medical license revoked, if not given judiciary punishment for gross medical neglect and misconduct. He even actively said "we don't even need to do tests for TB, and we aren't going to do them," and consigned vomiting up to ten times a day as a purely psychological issue. What the hell.
[b]Especially[/b] since someone in the school she went to contracted tuberculosis, something I am [b]positive[/b] these hospitals would have in their records. I would think it'd be standard fucking procedure to test for something like that when someone who goes to the same school as a known contractor of tuberculosis started to succumb to symptoms common to tuberculosis in a short time-period after the documented contraction.
Not to mention it sounds like, from the article at least, the test for whether she had tuberculosis was simple and probably fairly inexpensive. So why the hell did they never once do it? Especially since, as I already said, there's a known and documented case of a contraction of tuberculosis at the school she went to? Wouldn't this be a standard procedure for something like this?
Where the hell did these damn practitioners get their degrees? [url]www.printamedicaldegreenow.scam?[/url][/QUOTE]
TB tests are incredibly easy. It's a simple skin test that takes a few weeks to determine the outcome. It's simple, effective, cheap, and painless.
[quote]Mr Sarag - who is also being treated for TB - told the inquest his daughter vomited up to 10 times a day and had to be carried to bed "like an old woman with weak legs".[/quote]
Every single one of those doctors deserves to have his/her license taken.
How the fuck does this sort of behavior NOT ring EVERY SINGLE BELL you can think of?
Coughing blood?
Probably lovesick.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;35975019]Coughing blood?
Probably lovesick.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure nosebleeds mean hatesick
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;35974554]How the hell do five individual doctors, in at least three separate hospitals, never once test for something like tuberculosis when she was sick for over four months?
I mean the "vomiting up to ten times a day" would be a pretty good indicator that something is fucking wrong, I would think.
I hope Pandit gets his damn medical license revoked, if not given judiciary punishment for gross medical neglect and misconduct. He even actively said "we don't even need to do tests for TB, and we aren't going to do them," and consigned vomiting up to ten times a day as a purely psychological issue. What the hell.
[B]Especially[/B] since someone in the school she went to contracted tuberculosis, something I am [B]positive[/B] these hospitals would have in their records. I would think it'd be standard fucking procedure to test for something like that when someone who goes to the same school as a known contractor of tuberculosis started to succumb to symptoms common to tuberculosis in a short time-period after the documented contraction.
Not to mention it sounds like, from the article at least, the test for whether she had tuberculosis was simple and probably fairly inexpensive. So why the hell did they never once do it? Especially since, as I already said, there's a known and documented case of a contraction of tuberculosis at the school she went to? Wouldn't this be a standard procedure for something like this?
Where the hell did these damn practitioners get their degrees? [URL="http://www.printamedicaldegreenow.scam?"]www.printamedicaldegreenow.scam?[/URL][/QUOTE]
GP's in the UK can stupidly hit and miss because they aren't directly run by the NHS - they run their own surgeries.
I had a DVT misdiagnosed twice by my surgery, and again it's easily detectable by a simple blood test called a D-dimer that takes less than a day to process. It didn't get picked up until I went into A&E when I started having breathing difficulties and chest pains - turned out I was damn close to dying because the blood clot in my leg had moved through my body and turned into a massive pulmonary embolism, effectively stopping blood flowing to one of my lungs and to half of my other lung. I was pretty fucking pissed off afterwards.
[QUOTE=Crash15;35975323]I'm sure nosebleeds mean hatesick[/QUOTE]
Or arousal.
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[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;35974554]I hope Pandit gets his damn medical license revoked, if not given judiciary punishment for gross medical neglect and misconduct.[/QUOTE]
How about malpractice and/or manslaughter?
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;35975496]
How about malpractice and/or manslaughter?[/QUOTE]
Malpractice yes. Manslaughter no, maybe involuntary.
In Qatar, to simply enter the country requires a TB vaccine. If you're born here, it's done for you at the hospital. It's a really ugly disease and should be taken more seriously.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;35975676]Malpractice yes. Manslaughter no, maybe involuntary.[/QUOTE]
It's gonna be involuntary. But IMO, it's pretty damn voluntary when you refuse to test for the obvious answer and offer no treatment beside berating and belittling the patient.
Wow, feel for her. She was unlucky enough to get secondary infection TB at such a young age, and then those idiots fuck her over. Most people don't start feeling the effects of TB for years after they caught it.
My grandmother was treated for TB when she was 9 years old. That was in the second world war, for fuck's sake. There's so much in this article that makes me sick.
Having a mental condition as shitty as lovesick will, in no shape or way, make you vomit ten times a day. What a moron. What a fucking idiot.
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AFAIK TB tests are simple and costless as shit, there would've been no harm in just testing her for TB.
[QUOTE=Recurracy;35975956]My grandmother was treated for TB when she was 9 years old. That was in the second world war, for fuck's sake. There's so much in this article that makes me sick.
Having a mental condition as shitty as lovesick will, in no shape or way, make you vomit ten times a day. What a moron. What a fucking idiot.
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AFAIK TB tests are simple and costless as shit, there would've been no harm in just testing her for TB.[/QUOTE]
Though some mental conditions do actually cause vomiting, you just don't jump to a diagnosis like lovesickness without checking for any and all physical tests first. It's far, far more likely to be a physical illness. And even if she was lovesickness, if she doesn't respond to treatment then you keep running tests. I don't understand how these doctors could be so negligent.
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[quote]
Mr Sarag also claimed Dr Pandit refused to test his daughter for TB.
He told the inquest: "He said, 'We don't need these tests, we are not going to get them done either.'
"As you tried to progress he just totally changed the subject."
Mr Sarag - who is also being treated for TB - told the inquest his daughter vomited up to 10 times a day and had to be carried to bed "like an old woman with weak legs."[/quote]
No excuses here and no other side to the story. Clearly the doctors fault.
[QUOTE=Conspiracy;35975709]In Qatar, to simply enter the country requires a TB vaccine. If you're born here, it's done for you at the hospital. It's a really ugly disease and should be taken more seriously.[/QUOTE]
Used to be compulsory in the UK, you had it when you were 13-14 in school. I think my year was the last to have it done, and that would have been 8-9 years ago. Not sure why it stopped.
due to religion obviously, herr derr
That's terrible :(
I can't imagine what the parents must be feeling.
Poor girl too... what a horrible death.
Idiocracy.
[QUOTE=Camundongo;35976330]Used to be compulsory in the UK, you had it when you were 13-14 in school. I think my year was the last to have it done, and that would have been 8-9 years ago. Not sure why it stopped.[/QUOTE]
That's an easy one to answer.
It's because vaccines cause autism. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8416055/FacepunchEmots/Downs.gif[/img]
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