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World News See other World News Articles Title: NHS nightmare: Cancer patient who filled cups with blood & not diagnosed for 10 months dies Ain’t socialized health care grand? From Daily Mirror: A newly-wed who allegedly wasn’t diagnosed with bowel cancer for 10 months despite “filling cups with blood” when she went to the toilet, has died. Gemma Epstein, who married two days before dying on December 20, was told by doctors to “take each day as it comes”. She was fighting for her life and had to pay around £2,000 a month for drugs she could not get on the NHS. Her family had also set up a fundraising page to try and raise the cash for last-ditch treatment in Germany that they hoped could help her. However, Gemma died just before Christmas as the cancer was so aggressive that no treatment could help her. Gemma had started paying for Avastin in the hope it would shrink her tumours, as she had been told by the NHS she could not have the drug because they no longer use it. The 37-year-old believed that had family doctors acted sooner she might have been not been facing such a bleak future. On December 12, Gemma was told the cancer was too aggressive for Avastin to work on its own without chemotherapy. Eight days later, her sister, Becky Epstein uploaded an emotional post to Facebook confirming her death. She said: “Gemma passed away this morning at 8am with her husband by her side. An unbelievably beautiful, courageous and inspirational lady who touched so many people throughout her life. We are so very proud of how bravely and fiercely she fought her illness, right until the very end, she is now at peace. RIP my beautiful big sister ” Tributes poured in online from those who knew Gemma. Speaking today, sister Becky, 34, said: “The doctor told her no more Avastin, no more chemo. Take each day as it comes. She broke down. She deteriorated every day and we didn’t know how long she had left. The day before she died, she said ‘I don’t think I will be here tomorrow’.” Becky said that despite her sister appearing to know her fate, it was still a shock when she died. “Nothing can prepare you for that. It was such a shock. It is such a shame. We didn’t even have enough time to get used to her new name.” Gemma had married her partner Ben Greenwood at Pendleside Hospice in Burnley, Lancashire two days before her death. Gemma, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, first went to her doctor in the spring of 2015. The 37-year-old had visited a number of GPs and walk-in centres over a ten month period before her diagnosis but could not get answers. It was not until April 2016, after repeated visits to GP practices in NHS Greater Manchester and NHS England North, that Gemma was finally referred to a consultant. Speaking earlier this month Becky described what Gemma was going through. She said: “She was going to the GP in pain and she was filling cups full of blood. They kept telling her nothing was wrong and they couldn’t find anything. If the cancer was caught sooner it would have been operated on sooner.” Poster Comment: But its free. Not really. You pay taxes and it costs your life. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Horse (#0)
The medical system is about that bad here, except they will write you tons of scrips for Big Pharma drugs and you can get them (and they kill you faster). But they aren't interested in actually diagnosing anything. They just prescribe SSRIs for everything. And yeah, socialized, politicized medicine is a disgrace. Get the government out of medical care.
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