Frau stirbt, nachdem ihr die Sauerstoffmaske abgenommen wurde, da das Personal dachte, sie hätte „überreagiert“

There’s only one solution… Vote Reform to Privatise the NHS. Then she would never have been able to afford going to the hospital in the first place.

Problem solved!

I am a doctor.

This would have been, at least in part, because she was a young woman. A young, breathless woman is the classic case presentation of an anxiety attack. That archetype is drilled into us. Medicine involves a lot of pattern recognition and this is the unfortunate consequence of that.

Women in pain are too often dismissed as anxious or exaggerating.

This article suggests that she wasn’t seen by a doctor until she was critical enough to go to high care. Until then it only mentions nurses who can’t typically prescribe things like IV fluids, unless they’re ANPs (advanced nurse practitioners). ANPs are more and more frequently used to replace doctors on their rotas despite explicitly not being medically trained.

It isn’t clear from the article but „she’s not that unwell, just a bit tachy and her sats aren’t that bad, probably just a panic attack“ is an error to get trained not to make if you’re trained properly. Next time you’re seeing someone for a medical problem make sure you check their job role and ask if they’re a doctor if that’s not clear.

The cost of PFI ‘initiatives’ and underfunding,
A deliberate gov’t failure and profits passing into private hands.

Most hospitals pay over half their budget to PFI loans. We’re being robbed

It’s tyool 2026 and we’re still doing „Have a lie down, love, you’re hysterical.“

I was taken to A&E by ambulance in December 2019. My sats at home were in the low 80s but I was still pink and seemingly coping. The hospital took one look at me and shoved my trolley into CDU so not even majors. They gave me an oxygen mask but I was not coping and beginning to panic. The staff ignored me because I think they thought i was being dramatic. I eventually ripped my oxygen mask and screamed for someone to help me. A nurse came over and looked at my sats which were now in the low 70s, she asked a dr what to do and he said ‘if that’s her REAL sats, move her to resus’. Well they were indeed my real sats!! I was taken to resus, a peri arrest call was put out and I was swamped with drs and nurses. I don’t really remember much else from there. My last memory is telling them to do they everything they could for me because I have children before they intubated me and took me to ITU. I spent a month on ITU on a ventilator, in a coma. I wasn’t expected to survive but against all odds I did. So yes, they don’t take women seriously, they didn’t take me seriously when I was in respiratory failure. The ITU staff were fantastic to me, my family and my friends and I owe them my life. The A&E staff however……
I’m a radiographer in the NHS and I’m sick of working with people that don’t care!! If you don’t like other humans and you don’t like caring for vulnerable, unwell people, DON’T train in a caring profession.
The NHS can be excellent but I strongly believe being able to advocate for myself helped saved my life. Not every patient is in a position to do that though.

People need to be shown this shit every time they badger in about how good the NHS is.

Imagine dying whilst people around you are rolling thier eyes.

I had that happen with pain meds after a surgery. They hung the bag but never connected it to the IV. I kept pushing the med button and finally asked them to call the doctor for more meds. It hurt. They thought I was pain med seeking. Eventually, my sister who is a nurse checked the line and found it wasn’t connected. Then they all panicked thinking they were going to get sued. They sent the risk mgmt director and everything and sent me home with a bunch of supplies. Point is, listen to the patient. 

Absolutely tragic and completely avoidable case. Negligence within the NHS is unfortunately commonplace.

Was in A&E a couple of years ago and a nurse said it was just ‚anxiety‘ and refused to order any tests. I was back the next day and it turned out to be a rare reaction to some new medication which caused dangerously low blood sodium levels and I ended up admitted for a week in a bed surrounded by shit-stained curtains. At least it was a ward and not a corridor, I guess.

Will never forget how disinterested and rude the nurse was as I tried to explain my symptoms and then the way she almost seemed to enjoy telling me I would have to go home without having any tests done. She never even asked about any medication I was taking. I lost a lot of respect for healthcare professionals after that.

More recently, my elderly mum was recently left with a broken leg for over 2 whole months due to delays getting xray results, then when she was finally admitted to hospital her hip replacement op was postponed 5 times.

Unfortunately we barely have a functioning health service anymore. I have private health insurance and try to use it whenever I can, but unfortunately it’s no good for emergency problems.

Having been with my mum, who’s on oxygen 24/7, in hospital for a copd flare up when they put a nebuliser mask on her and didn’t connect her oxygen to it leading to her ending up on 50% oxygen levels until it was discovered I can sadly say it’s unfortunately very common for mistakes to be made.

All I can say is stay with your loved ones and watch over them and don’t assume that just because they are doctors and nurses that they don’t get things wrong.

We also had a nurse walk down the respiratory ward spraying air freshener- which is a common trigger for copd and asthma!

I hope this lady’s family get justice for her.

I got accused of overreacting in hospital when I had an allergic reaction to a IV drip I could feel my throat closing and was begging them to remove the drip. They did but continued saying I couldn’t have reacted to it….I literally couldn’t breathe and I felt like the inside of my veins were itching. Because they wouldn’t listen its not marked on my records that I had a reaction. I’ve had this and other terrible treatment. Several times I’ve felt unwell enough to go to A&E but too scared from that experience to go. I always think of all the times we don’t hear about these things and hospitals excuse or cover things up

This poor woman and her family. It’s really sad and infuriating.

When I was living in London I had an allergic reaction to a food that I’d had some gastric issues with prior, but this was my „exponential reaction.“ My tongue was starting to feel weird and I had that impending sense of doom that happens with anaphylaxis.

My friends rushed me to emergency and it was as if no sense of urgency existed in there. The nurse asking me questions kept saying, „Where’s your epi pen? If it’s this bad, why don’t you have an epi pen?“ The tone was borderline taunting and like they were trying to call my bluff. I kept trying to explain that it had never happened before like this.

They told me I was just having a panic attack. One said just take deep breaths and stop being dramatic. It was only when one of them noticed that my voice was changing and sounding gurgly and faint that there was an „oh shit, this is really happening“ moment and they all jumped into action.

On leaving, the doctor told me I was lucky they’d acted so quickly!

Yet another gigantic and extremely preventable failure by the NHS.

There should be a documentary about NHS‘ incompetence. They should start with the Milton Keynes hospital.

Similar happened to me. Told the nurse I still needed oxygen and she insisted I didn’t. Took it off me and I almost immediately took an asthma attack.

I was in A&E two weeks ago struggling to breathe. The paramedic mocked me before being pushed to take me to hospital by my brother. The para actually asked if I’d ’just called 999 for a wee check up’! I was so short of breath I couldn’t speak. I’d turned grey. My oxygen stats did look fine, but the other signs were clearly showing something was wrong. They offered no oxygen, nothing.

Anyway, I was sent home 12 hours later being told I had anxiety. Turns out it was my thoracic endometriosis had flared and the cause was that my right lung was so inflamed causing so much pain and breathing difficulty. It could have been eased with oxygen and good medication. They didn’t care. Days later I was coughing up blood and it took a week for me to get my breath back.

I was at serious risk for lung collapse all along.