{"id":2769,"date":"2010-08-02T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/02\/take-your-cellphone-to-the-hospital-with-you-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T23:42:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:42:27","slug":"take-your-cellphone-to-the-hospital-with-you-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/02\/take-your-cellphone-to-the-hospital-with-you-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Take your cellphone to the hospital with you in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ll need your cellphone to take and send pictures of yourself as you lay neglected, like this young woman who texted pics of herself dying<\/a> to her family.  NHS is Britain’s National Health Service:<\/p>\n

A DESPERATE woman texted photos of herself slowly DYING to her mum as she lay suffering on a hospital bed – being ignored by NHS doctors.<\/p>\n

Tragic Jo Dowling, 25, sent over forty messages to her mother and best friend including pictures of a deadly rash spreading across her body as her life ebbed away.<\/p>\n

The pretty youngster was diagnosed by her family GP with suspected Meningococcal Septicaemia after developing a purple skin rash and low blood pressure last November.<\/p>\n

She was rushed to Milton Keynes Hospital where A&E doctors rejected the diagnosis believing instead her illness was a mild infection caused by her Cystic Fibrosis.<\/p>\n

Doctors abandoned Jo on a observation ward and gave her headache tablets and fluids as they failed to spot the purple rash spread over her arms, hands and legs.<\/p>\n

As the hours passed terrified Jo took photos of her rash on her mobile phone and sent them to her mum and best friend describing her condition as “getting worse”.<\/p>\n

The meningitis bug left her in septic shock choking and coughing as fluid filled her lungs and she died four hours after her last text message – just 14 hours after arriving at hospital. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems that the hospital was understaffed AND incompetent:<\/p>\n

The inquest heard there were only two doctors on duty to cover the entire hospital the night Jo died.<\/p>\n

Devastated mum Sue Christie, 48, of Milton Keynes, a distribution worker, said: “Our doctor knew it was meningitis but when we got to hospital all the care seemed to stop.<\/p>\n

“They didn’t seem to know what they were meant to do or what meningococcal septicaemia was.<\/p>\n

“The hospital was saying it was just an infection. She had a lot of infections with Cystic Fibrosis but never a rash like this.<\/p>\n

“I saw her picture messages and the rash was really bad. You couldn’t miss them but the nurses did. I thought she was in hospital and with the best people.<\/p>\n

“She wasn’t given a chance and was left to die without being given any treatment.<\/p>\n

“It is so sad as Jo had got through everything with her Cystic Fibrosis and was such a strong girl.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I give blood regularly, and the donor center always asks me if I’ve been to Britain lately.  I suspect that if I said yes, the next question would be, “Did you have any medical care in Britain?”<\/p>\n

Word gets around.<\/p>\n

h\/t: Powerline<\/a><\/p>\n

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