A Family Sues Hospital for Negligence
30/04/2007
A family is taking legal action
against Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after doctors failed to
diagnose a patient with bowel cancer.
Glynis Pearson, a
psychiatric nurse, was told she had irritable bowel syndrome, then was
told she had haemorrhoids and she then had her appendix removed.
It
took doctors a year and a half before the cancer was diagnosed. By this
time it was too late and the cancer had spread and could not be cured.
Mrs
Pearson, 51, who lived in Fakenham, began legal action for negligence
against the N&N but died before it could be brought to court.
Her three sons have taken up the claim as they believe if she had received the proper treatment, she would still be alive.
Mrs Pearson, who worked at the Queens Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn began suffering with stomach pain in 2002.
She
went to her GP who first treated her for irritable bowel syndrome, then
transferred her to N&N who diagnosed her with haemorrhoids.
Mis-diagnosis resulted in cancer
But
this did not help her and she became increasingly ill and was admitted
again in May 2003. She was diagnosed with appendicitis and had her
appendix removed. Tests showed that the appendix was not at fault.
She
was not seen again by doctors until August and wasn't internally
examined until October when a bowel obstruction was found. She
underwent surgery and tests showed she had cancer and it had spread to
her lungs.
There was nothing that could be done for her and she died on July 30, 2005.
The N&N denies responsibility and is fighting the case.
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