The Search for Answers Part 1 of 4
While trying to come to terms with the sudden death of Jenny, I took time to search and read on the internet hundreds of articles on hospital malpractices, injuries and deaths, especially post surgical complications. Most of these were scholarly papers couched in medical jargon, and took me many long hours to decipher. Eventually I got a fair grasp of post operational protocols and how hospitals deal with enquiries from the public. Obviously the hospital isn’t going to reveal anything suggesting breaches of patient safety procedures, so I proceeded without any illusions of finding any.
The first step was to get the so-called “Specialist Medical Report.” This is usually sought by victims of road and industrial accidents when submitting a claim for insurance payouts. It is a routine procedure and hospitals don’t bat an eyelid when dishing it out. This would probably be just a perfunctory report of what happened.
7 Feb 2009
I applied for the Specialist Medical Report.
25 Feb 2009
I received the report comprising the following pages.
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| Above: Cover Note (click to enlarge) |
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| Above: Specialist Medical Report (click to enlarge) |
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| Pre-surgical Scan of abdomen and pelvis – 14 Nov 2008 20:28 (1-2) (click to enlarge) |
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| Pre-surgical Scan of abdomen and pelvis – 14 Nov 2008 20:28 (2-2). Surgery was conducted on 15 Nov 2008 at 13:45 (click to enlarge) |
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| On discovering the patient in a comatose state post surgery, a CT Scan of brain was done – 16 Nov 2008 9:29 (click to enlarge) |
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| Later in the day, a MRI of brain was done –16 Nov 2008 14:17 (1-2) (click to enlarge) |
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| MRI of brain – 16 Nov 2008 14:17 (2-2) (click to enlarge) |
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| About an hour later a General Radiography of chest was done – 16 Nov 2008 14:17 (click to enlarge) |
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| Hemogram 18 Nov 2008 22:07 (1-2), pg 2 was not submitted by hospital. (click to enlarge) |
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| Discharge Summary – 19 Nov 2008 To be continued... |
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