off to hospital on the 1st, question for the ladies !!

[rachel1]

ime just glad ime not having any more kids

well i got up this morning and ime not in as much pain as i have been lateley i got away with just codiene instead of tramadol (wich is handy )

ime going to collect my medical records later on just in case i decide to sue. to be honest i just dont know what to do part of me wants to leave it and just get on with it, another part thinks why should i let them get away with it

[LIGA girl]

ime going to collect my medical records later on just in case i decide to sue. to be honest i just dont know what to do part of me wants to leave it and just get on with it, another part thinks why should i let them get away with it

Get some legal advice Rachel, and that will give you more info to make up your mind. I can understand how you feel though ....

[rachel1]

yea thats what my mother in law said last night.

the problem is i cant really aford to sue the hospital lawyers are expensive

[bunnie]

Rachel, you don't legal advice from costly lawyers. In every hospital there is an office that deals with patients complaints. Ask where this office is when you pick up the notes. If the Gynae are telling you to do something DO! It won't cost you anything and you will be recompensed. They are most likely to want to settle out of court anyway. You need to simply write everything down from start to finish, in your own words, (do a rough copy first, and also retain a copy of the final draft for yourself) and hand this letter into that office, asking for a receipt as you hand it over , confirming that they are in receipt of your written complaint.

[rachel1]

thanks bunnie i didnt know that. i will right out a complaint now and take it in later on

[bunnie]

The following are very serious, and clearly each of these persons have failed in their duty toward you as a patient. One of the prime principals of nursing is to check everything, that is why there is so much paperwork involved in nursing nowadays, because everything has to be written down. If she checked it will be recorded, and if she recorded she did check, when she didn't in fact, then that is a serious offence under law.
It was her duty as a nurse to have checked!!

 

i came back in the room and said the amount i was bleeding wasnt normal (remmembering ive had babies before and you know yourself when something isnt right) they were more interested in the other mums that were laboring so i just didnt get the stitches

when i went to the post natal ward a midwife asked if she can check my stitches and i told her i didnt have any (now that makes sence) she said she must have got it rong she apologised and said she would look in my notes (mustnt have happened)

again a midwife asked if she can check my stitches,again i said i didnt have them and she said she must have made a mistake and just checked my tummy.

at my 6 week check (14 weeks because she was prem) the doctor said she would refer me to the gynie because i was still bleeding but i had to try the pill injection first

Well could she not see??

3 months later i was still bleeding only having 2 or 3 days clear so she refered me

This wouldn't be the same doctor who is also looking after Lauren is it?? !

she told me to claim aswell she said how would i feel if it happened to another woman and she lost her life over it?

Absolutely Rachel!! It could have been you! Then what would have happened to your children? The doctor is particulary remiss Rachel , that is disgusting! It really is serious that. This woman is incompetant. What if she makes mistakes like that with your kids?
This Gynae I'm sure will help you Rachel, but really you don't need any, just go to the office of complaints. It is there for this very reason , as an advocacy  for the patient. Anyone will tell you where that is in the particular hospital.
Bunnie

[rachel1]

hi bunnie
yes its the same doctor who looks after lauren we only have 2 doctors at our surgery and they have set patients dependant on surname

thanks for your help bunnie i cant tell you how much i apreciate it
i was in a situation where i just didnt know what to do now i can see quite clearley i have to take this further because like you said what if it was one of my kids this happened to

i am just glad (in a way) it was me they didnt treat properly and not lilly because in there defence i must say they were fantastic with her they tried using skin to skin to heat her up and when it didnt work they got her in an incubator really quickly

anyway ime off to the hospital now ill let you know what is said
thanks again
rachel

[bunnie]

Here is a link Rachel about complaining to the NHS Scotland. Scroll down and it mentions the liason officers at the hospital. Everything you need is on this link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/A2494172
This is the Patients Association
http://www.patients-association.com/
I am appalled that your doctor waited after your second visit, for 3 months before suggesting she would refer you, and all that time you were losing blood. Did she not check you Rachel there?It really is shameful that Rachel, anybody with a grain of common sense knows that isn't right under those circumstances.These people hold the care of you and your childrens lives Rachel. I wouldn't trust her as far as I could fling her, and would travel if necessary to have a better doc I could rely on. From all you have said, she has made some huge blunders, not least in Laurens case.
Bunnie

[rachel1]

thanks bunnie.

i went to the hospital and it clearly states in my notes that i needed stitches

also regarding the midwife on the ward she had riten in the notes that she was told no stitches were present when she asked me if she can check them and it needed checking with the dr

it also states that after my shower i said i was bleeding abnormaly and i was to be monitored for half an hour before i had stitches

so i went to the advocasy place and the woman couldnt beleve what she was hearing she said she would get straight on to it dunno if that was just to fob me off but she seemed genuine enough especially after i pulled out a great big file with my notes in it proving what i was saying i showed her all the stuff from when lilly was born then showed her the notes from mondays apointment and she seemed genuinley shocked apologised on behalf of the hospital and said she was going to deal with it straight away. i didnt accept her apology i said she wasnt at fault and therefore its not for her to apologise she then told me that they always apologise like that to see how many folk are genuinley going to take it further. i then informed her that now i have got over the shock myself i am going to take it all the way

[bunnie]

  They will be C*&%^"*g themselves Rachel. Try the citizens advice too Rachel, they are very good with things like this, just to add another string to your bow. Ask them how they would advise you to proceed. Did the liason officer TELL you what to do next? because she should have done.

[rachel1]

she said that the corect procedure for esculating a complaint is to first make the complaint so she took the letter you advised me to right (and i put everything in it even the loss of bonding time with my baby because i was laid up in bed) as a letter of complaint she said i will get a writen reply within 28 days and that will have further options on it

she didnt say i could take it all the way but you could clearly see her bricking it

i need to go make tea but will be bk soon
thanks
rachel