Doctors and the Hippocratic oath to preserve enthusiasm?
my mother had a stroke 6 months ago, she was taken to hospital where she have a second stroke and the doctor allowed her to die... he judged that the second stroke had caused too much lay waste to. he had not carried out any medical procedures to prove this judgement!
i'm angry that he just chose to allow her to die...that he made no attempt to save her... i thought the doctors oath be to preserve life...?
i know many of you will say it be probably for the best, but what gave him the right to just give up on her so rapidly?
he didn't know my mum, or know what a fighter she was. my grandmother also had 2 strokes when within her early 60s, however the doctors didn't give up on her and she recovered and lived till 75...
i feel robbed and i touch that the doctor let my mum die, that he never gave her the chance she deserved...
what do you right to be heard?
Answers:
What exactly does "allowed her to die" mean?
It may hold been a very serious stroke that did more damage than the strokes that your grandmother suffered from. Strokes can swing on their severity and where they occur. Did the doctor explain in what approach the stroke had done too much damage? Did you speak to another doctor to see if they shared the same medical view?
Everything you feel is natural and very usual.
Perhaps write to the hospital concerned and ask for an explanation, or ring/see their Patient Liaison Service to help you do this - they will provide advice on doing this.
This is in the uk though.
The first 24 hours of have the first stroke is critical and where a percentage of victims die - the fact it sounds like she have her stroke within this time limit shows her prognosis would not have be good even if she had been resucitated.
I don't know about other med schools, but we did not hold the Hippocratic Oath, we took the Oath of Geneva.
how good was her insurance? was she obese or a minority? this could be grounds for a malpractice suit.
in opposition, "having a stroke" never happens over the whole brain. it's usually a outstandingly small leak in the brain that causes the generous of damage usually seen in rehabilitating stroke patients, i.e. loss of motion. however, if the stroke be more widespread or in a more critical area, close to the brain stem, a doctor could easily see that too.
How come you didn't tell the doctor to do more to save her? Did she hold a DNR?
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i'm angry that he just chose to allow her to die...that he made no attempt to save her... i thought the doctors oath be to preserve life...?
i know many of you will say it be probably for the best, but what gave him the right to just give up on her so rapidly?
he didn't know my mum, or know what a fighter she was. my grandmother also had 2 strokes when within her early 60s, however the doctors didn't give up on her and she recovered and lived till 75...
i feel robbed and i touch that the doctor let my mum die, that he never gave her the chance she deserved...
what do you right to be heard?
Answers:
What exactly does "allowed her to die" mean?
It may hold been a very serious stroke that did more damage than the strokes that your grandmother suffered from. Strokes can swing on their severity and where they occur. Did the doctor explain in what approach the stroke had done too much damage? Did you speak to another doctor to see if they shared the same medical view?
Everything you feel is natural and very usual.
Perhaps write to the hospital concerned and ask for an explanation, or ring/see their Patient Liaison Service to help you do this - they will provide advice on doing this.
This is in the uk though.
The first 24 hours of have the first stroke is critical and where a percentage of victims die - the fact it sounds like she have her stroke within this time limit shows her prognosis would not have be good even if she had been resucitated.
I don't know about other med schools, but we did not hold the Hippocratic Oath, we took the Oath of Geneva.
how good was her insurance? was she obese or a minority? this could be grounds for a malpractice suit.
in opposition, "having a stroke" never happens over the whole brain. it's usually a outstandingly small leak in the brain that causes the generous of damage usually seen in rehabilitating stroke patients, i.e. loss of motion. however, if the stroke be more widespread or in a more critical area, close to the brain stem, a doctor could easily see that too.
How come you didn't tell the doctor to do more to save her? Did she hold a DNR?
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