Monday, September 30, 2013

Stroke victim paid £350K after warfarin withdrawn

And what exactly is your standard of care during the first week when neurons are dying off by the millions due to the neuronal cascade of death? Are the doctors just sitting on their asses not doing anything at all? Do they even know there is a neuronal cascade of death? Demand an answer from your hospital. Apologies will not bring back dead neurons so sue the hell out of them. Maybe money will change behavior, nothing else seems to work to get the stroke world to solve their problems with saving neurons from dying.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-24341286
A Greater Manchester woman who had a stroke after she was taken off blood-thinning drugs has been awarded £350,000 compensation from a hospital trust.
Anne Olliver, 66, from Altrincham, was taken off the drug warfarin while at Wythenshawe Hospital in 2007.
The former librarian suffered a stroke in November 2010 when a blood clot travelled from a chamber in her heart to her brain.
Mrs Olliver said she had been left so incapacitated by the stroke she was now unable to carry out "even the simplest of tasks".
A statement from the University Hospital of South Manchester Trust said: "The trust accepts that there were failings in the standard of care provided to Mrs Olliver, and apologises unreservedly."

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