Pro Boxer Georgia O’Connor stirbt bei 25 nach Fehlgeburt und Krebs, die sie 4 Monate lang ignoriert haben
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/pro-boxer-georgia-oconnor-dies-193311398.html
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Pro Boxer Georgia O’Connor stirbt bei 25 nach Fehlgeburt und Krebs, die sie 4 Monate lang ignoriert haben
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/pro-boxer-georgia-oconnor-dies-193311398.html
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What a sad story. Rest in peace. Doctors need to really do better recognising signs of severe illness
would love to hear the doctors justification for completely dismissing her.. i mean, a blood test ffs? all they had to do was test her blood! 4 months of „you’ll be ok mate, chin up“ – i hope the guilt rips through them
UK doctors are so dismissive of pain, especially if it’s a woman suffering. It’s always „just“ period pain, over exaggerated (moved on from the word hysteria) or for older women menopause.
My heart hurts for Georgia and her loved ones. Doctors dismissing you is sadly all too common, I’ve experienced it so much over the past year and would have been saved a lot of heartache if someone had actually stopped and listened to me, but at least I am still here, as Georgia may have been if she was taken seriously when seeking help.
For all the DEI “training” NHS staff go on, so many are still too eager to dismiss patient concerns and send them on their way.
> O’Connor’s post continued, “But not one doctor f—— listened to me. Not one doctor took me seriously. Not one doctor did the scans or blood tests I begged for whilst crying on the floor in agony. Instead, they dismissed me. They gaslit me, told me it was nothing, made me feel like I was overreacting. They refused to scan me. They refused to investigate. They REFUSED to listen. One even told me that it’s ‘all in my head.’ And now? Now the cancer has spread.”
This story is all too common and too relatable for women seeking competent healthcare. I think there needs to be some form of consequence for doctors who ignore, dismiss and belittle female patients. Especially when their (in)actions cause chronic pain, chronic health conditions, disability or death.
Doctors killing through lack of action. Such simple tests could save so many but the doctors just don’t seem to care.
One of the biggest issues with the NHS is the level of care is so hit or miss.
Both myself and a relative have had very positive experiences when the NHS recently. Initial appointments were arranged the same day as contact, referrals made to relevant teams, and diagnostic scans/tests being completed in less than a month.
I’m not sure how much of this is down to postcode lottery, the local trust/practice, or perhaps even the individual doctor you initially see.
There is however an issue, regardless of where you are, of consistently dismissing pain reported by young adults, and apparently it’s even worse for women. There’s this assumption you won’t have anything serious if you’re young and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Doctors may be experts on medicine, but they are NOT experts on a person’s own body. If someone is saying to you, „I know my body, and this is not right“ then that should be taken seriously.
A very typical story of the completely useless NHS!
Straight up killed by NHS negligence, yet you look at mainstream publications like the BBC and Guardian on this case and theres not a peep about the dismissals and refusals she faced that led to the cancer becoming incurable.
hoping these doctors never sleep soundly at night again
She had known risk factors and they still wouldn’t err on the side of caution. No idea how they can justify that.
Nowhere near as serious as this but years ago I kept going to the doctors saying I was passing blood in my stool. They kept saying it was piles. They even told me to stop ringing them or they’d strike me off their books. A year later I was so weak and tired from passing blood daily I collapsed. Turns out I had ulcerative colitis and it had gotten very serious and they had the cheek to say I should have been more forceful with the doctors!
Fast forward to four years ago and I collapsed at work with chest pains. Went to hospital and was told it was indigestion. A few months later I woke up with a heart rate of 155bpm and sweating. Ambulance came and took me in and the doctors said I had a nightmare. A few times since I’ve rang the doctors and been told that there’s nothing wrong with me. Christmas Eve I woke up thinking my cat was purring on my chest and then I felt the pain. Ambulances were too busy so my wife drove me in and my heart rate was skipping between 120 and 230 and they had to stop my heart four times to get it back in to rhythm. The scariest thing that’s ever happened to me is feeling my heart stop.
Five months later they still don’t know what’s causing it and don’t seem any rush to find out and I’ve had to go back a couple of times since with high heart rate from nowhere.
Spent my entire childhood unable to gain weight.
Told the doctors I had an overactive thyroid.
Was told „no you stupid kid, your diet is shit.“
Continued to not gain weight.
Doctors said „drink these milkshakes to bulk up“.
In my 20s, I woke up one morning completely paralysed. Was taken to the hospital under symptoms of a stroke and a resting heartbeat of 100.
In the hospital, the doctors were baffled. My paralysis was caused by a potassium deficiency, amongst other things. What could be causing it?! It’s a medical mystery!!
I told them I’ve always been this underweight. And my heartbeat has always been this quick and I’ve always thought I’ve had a thyroid problem.
Finally get a SIMPLE FUCKING TEST DONE.
And it turns out I had Graves Disease.
An overactive thyroid.
My entire childhood being ignored, all the weight related sickness and body dismorphia.
Solved. By a years course of medication.
The doctors should be imprisoned but instead they will be striking for a pay rise
A lot of Doctors are terrible for this. My aunt died recently to cancer that was ignored for almost a year. She had a persistent, chesty cough and they kept giving her antibiotics and ignoring her other symptoms. They only gave her an X-ray after she called and told them she was coughing blood.
I have a friend whose doctor ignored his symptoms for over 18 months. He had non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. After two years of treatment the cancer is gone but like many other cancers chances are better when discovered early.
You hear one side of a very unrealistic story, sorry I don’t believe it. There is too much detail missing
When you make healthcare free at the point of use it gets rationed. In this case they probably decreased this girls chances of survival to try and avoid a few tests.
Such a shame. 25 is no age at all, especially when it comes to medical incompetence. Met her and her husband a couple of years ago and they were genuinely lovely people.
GPs are there to ward off the hordes of „worried well“. The role they perform is antiquated and massively outdated, but they do unfortunately keep out the hordes of mostly elderly people from clogging up the rest of the NHS.
The downside of this is that they tend to treat everyone the same. I’d imagine that a lot of GPs are basically inundated by people who have nothing or very little wrong with them, so they are kinda just on autopilot.
Sadly it is the same in Canada. Doctors are told they are better than everyone else and so they act that way and most have no compassion and no common sense. They go into medicine for their egos. So much loss that is preventable. In Canada there is no way to hold doctors accountable – hopefully these doctors are identified at least on social media and maybe one will feel slightly bad for an hour or two… although doubtful.
accessing medicine while female. Doctors will do everything they can to dismiss your pain, tell you it’s „normal“ or imply you’re overreacting or just too sensitive. They might run tests, but only the cheapest ones they can to get rid of you. You’re more likely to be sent home with pain killers and told „it’s stress/anxiety“ or „hormonal“ and left to suffer.
I spent 25 YEARS trying to get help for my debilitating pain, 25 years of being told it was „normal“ to lose huge quantities of blood regularly and be crippled in pain. 25 years of being told I was just „sensitive“ and that it was „idiopathic“. decades of being told my whole body swelling up and having month long migraines and chest pains and hot and cold flushes was just „one of those things“ and „had I considered it might be anxiety?“
I’m certain the primary reason I have kidney disease is because doctors kept just handing me progressively stronger painkillers to get rid of me rather than actually investigate.
It’s not JUST the NHS, it’s ALL medicine. It’s the way doctors are trained. It’s institutionalized misogyny.
I’ve even had female doctors scoff at me and tell me „of course periods are supposed to hurt!“.
Turns out I have adenomyosis and some other unspecified (because they won’t actually do more tests) hormonal disorder on top of that which causes me to react really really badly to estrogens. How „fun“.
But you know the most frustrating part? Since I went on testosterone (predominantly to help with the pain, and it bloody worked. nearly 6 years pain free, it’s amazing) and started to present as male several of the doctors who previously were super dismissive of me not only listen, but actually talk to me like a fricken human being. The boss of my regular GP was always an asshole to me as a woman, but as a guy he vents at me about the state of the NHS and arranges tests without me begging and pleading.
What… the hell? It makes me FUME that growing a beard apparently made me a person in his eyes. What is that about?
So yeah. Navigating medicine as a woman is to be denied, ignored and dismissed. It’s disgusting and this story only highlights how little female lives matter to the institution.
this poor woman. 25 is SO young. She had a whole life ahead of her. Instead medical misogyny killed her.
I didn’t have my period after giving birth for nearly 2 years.. the doctor told me to come back when my child is 5 and I still don’t have my period.
I started wegovy.. and low and behold: 2 weeks later, I had my period, and I lost my baby weight whilst being on the lowest dose.. I didn’t even kcal count or anything
Healthcare in this country is beyond awful honestly get filled with rage whenever I have to interact with this broken mess of a system
Jesus Christ.
This is awful.
My mum had gynae issues for 18 years after my brother was born. They were only sorted when she went into hospital with suspected appendicitis and a scan was done, where she was found to have a precancerous growth in her womb.
I hope those doctors live with the guilt for the rest of their lives and change accordingly, too many people have died due to doctors not giving a shit
SERIOUS TRIGGER WARNING. This is a Cancer treatment horror story. It might not be the best thing to read if you or a family member is suffering in UK with cancer. I know there will be more positive stories out there to counterbalance this one, and a positive mental attitude is important in times of darkness.
My mum passed away from small cell lung cancer, may 26th, last year. She’d been telling the doctor, and the God damned receptionist, for six months that she had cancer, but they wouldn’t hear of it and made her feel like a hypochondriac.
They finally told her one Friday afternoon. The doctor kept apologising for telling her such bad news on a Friday afternoon.
We saw the chemo team. I swear down we had a doctor called Dr zappem ( zap ‚em). When he was talking about aggressive chemo I mentioned my mum had a serious water infection for the last 4 months. He told me a water infection was not a priority compared to cancer.
They turned off her immune system and gave her chemo. I won’t describe that part, too horrific, and within ten days she was hospitalised with sepsis as the water infection raged out of control.
She was hospitalised at Bangor hospital (ysbyty gwenedd) over the second May bank holiday. I was told that there was no cancer doctors available over bank holiday weekend. There was confusion over her medication and with no Dr zappem to ask, my mum had to wait it out without any treatment.
She lay in the corner of A@E for three days.
In the end she scrawled „dim minev‘ on a piece of paper and thought against any help or assistance. She died a few hours later. We never saw or heard from her support team at any point after she was admitted. It was a horrible and humiliating death that no one deserves.
Now those adverts really stick in my throat… please give to Cancer research…
I can’t shake the feeling that this is exactly what my mum was to them, an opportunity to research on, a morbid science experiment. Cancer is rife on both sides of my family but I fear the Cancer Dr’s alot more than the disease now.
As a side note I know two friends who were cured through chemo by the NHS. They count towards the success statistics of such treatment I imagine.
Unfortunately both died within two years of being cured. They both died of cancer. Good luck and my genuine LOVE to anyone struggling with this disease.