Monday - October 19, 2009

ANOTHER BLIND DOCTOR, ANOTHER DEAD PATIENT ….  daily death and life

Can’t honestly say that this is the fault of National Health. Actually, I’m not in a position to know one way or another.  What do know from reading the papers every day 24/7, is that this happens a lot.  Hey, if it only happens once it’s a hell of a lot to the patient/victim and the family.
I also know because I have seen lots and lots of doctors here who resemble this doctor quack. There’s apparently a shortage on this island and so they import em from wherever.  That might not be a fair thing to say but sorry, it’s how I see it.

Doctor faces being struck off after woman, 26, dies of cancer ‘he failed to spot EIGHT times’

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:17 PM on 19th October 2009

Nikki Sams died after Dr Navin Shankar failed to spot her cervical cancer eight times in four years

A doctor who failed to spot the symptoms of cervical cancer in a young woman eight times in four years faces being struck off.

Dr Navin Shankar told Nikki Sams her health problems were ‘nothing serious’, never performed an internal examination and ignored her pleas for a hospital check-up.

The blunders only emerged when she was transferred to another surgery after Dr Shankar was suspended in a separate case of serious misconduct.

Her new doctor immediately ordered a smear test which showed the advertising saleswoman had abnormal cells and more tests found she had a tumour.

Miss Sams had a hysterectomy and months of treatment but died a year later aged 26 after the cancer spread to her lungs, spine and neck.

Her devastated father Michael Sams, 54, who had given up his job to look after her, said a ‘catalogue of unforgiveable errors’ cost his daughter her life.

‘Nikki was so brave, she never complained or said “why me” but she died unnecessarily,’ he told the General Medical Council.

‘It is unbelievable that in this day and age a girl can go to her doctor so many times complaining about all these symptoms and be sent away and told not to worry.

‘I don’t understand how you can exhibit these symptoms for so long and they not be picked up until it’s too late.’

He added: ‘We want to get some kind of answers… We want to know why it went wrong. Only then can we have closure.’
Doctor Navin Shankar

Doctor Navin Shankar faces being struck off the medical register

Under Government guidelines, young women are only eligible for regular cervical smear tests when they turn 25 so need them to be ordered by a doctor.

Dr Navin Shankar treated Miss Sams between 1999 and 2005 at the Wigmore Lane Health Centre in Luton.

He appeared before the General Medical Council last week to assess his fitness to practise and determine whether sanctions should be taken against him.

The case has been adjourned for a performance assessment to be carried out but the GMC has already ‘proven’ several complaints made against him.

It found Miss Sams had made direct requests to Dr Shankar and a number of other unrecorded complaints about inter-menstrual bleeding in the same period.

But he failed to keep adequate records of her symptoms.

She also made a request for referral to Luton & Dunstable Hospital, but at no stage did Dr Shankar perform an abdominal or internal examination or send her to hospital.

Mr Sams said his daughter went through the ‘worst pain of her life’ when she eventually had treatment for the disease.

She was given the all-clear after six months and went back to work but doctors found the cancer had returned when she was treated after a car accident.

A series of x-rays showed the disease had spread into her spine, neck and lungs and she was given six months to two years to live.

She died at home a month after being diagnosed with secondary cancer in August 2007. Her father never told her it was terminal so that she did not give up hope.

SOURCE

Posted by peiper     on 10/19/2009 at 10:43 AM   
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