74-year-old retired grandmother who did not want to be named should receive greater compensation for physician misdiagnosis resulting in the grandmother did not have the stomach anymore.
In 2004, the grandmother from Rugeley, Staffordshire, was diagnosed with stomach cancer. The doctor recommends it must undergo major surgery to remove the hull in order to save his life.
But after a stomach already appointed, the medical officer then found that surgery was not necessary because the test results in Cannock Chase and Stafford General Hospital showed that the mass in the stomach are benign grandmother.
Now the hospitals that perform surgery the grandmother had to accept lawsuits from attorneys who dtunjuk Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust.
"My client and the family is devastated by what happened. He was not only traumatized because the tumor has been diagnosed with life-threatening and some trial removal of the stomach, and now he knows that the actual surgery was not needed," explained Timothy Deeming, who represents the grandmother these, as reported by Dailymail, Wednesday (12/07/2011).
According to Deeming, the grandmother was very angry because he was not notified of the error diagnosis directly by the doctors who cared for him, but rather from other hospital staff members.
Keep in mind that gastric cancer surgery involves major surgery and recovery time is quite long. Appointment of the stomach, known as total gastrectomy did not influence the body's ability to digest food or liquids, but after surgery the patient needs to make dietary changes, such as eating smaller meals more often.
Because the stomach has been removed, the grandmother has lost weight and suffered from a painful gastrointestinal problems.
"I only have a little energy and doing everyday tasks become more difficult," said the grandmother who remain unnamed.
Deeming said the fault diagnosis is not only borne by individual doctors but should also hold accountable the doctors the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
"When a mistake like that does happen, people need to be convinced that the hospital concerned and the NHS as a whole to learn from mistakes, so the incidence of such disasters do not happen again," added Deeming.
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