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Inquest over death of Jehovah's Witness
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 7:52AM 
AN inquest hearing began this week into the death of a Jehovah’s Witness who died after a routine hospital procedure went tragically wrong.
An inquest at Bootle Town Hall heard on Monday (December 5) how grandmother-of-three Jean Gilman was admitted to Whiston Hospital in March 2009 after going to her GP complaining of shortness of breath.
X-rays showed that the 59-year-old had fluid on her left lung which needed to be removed by a pleural aspiration.
However, rather than follow British Thoracic Society guidelines and use an ultrasound machine to locate the fluid, a doctor instead attempted to guess where to insert the needle.
Reader Comments (1)
When Doctors make serious mistakes like this it becomes very convenient for them to heap most of the blame on the JW patient - "OK, yes, a mistake was made, but if the patient had only accepted the blood transfusion treatment the patient would of lived, so it's really their fault not ours...." etc, etc...
Like they know!