I've written complaints to both the Hospital where he was admitted before he died and also to his GP practice. I have only just written to his GP practice and received the response nearly 2 weeks ago and it completely floored me. I new this was a risk of making the complaints but i felt i had to ask questions, both for myself and for my father's memory. As a scientist and passionate intellectual I strongly believe he would have wanted his case looked at objectively and lessons learnt from it.
I managed to read the letter which has completely wiped me out for nearly 2 weeks again tonight and didn't cry. I read it completely differently to how I read it initially. I'm still not happy with the GP practice's response so I'm going to write again and I've shared this letter as it's evolved from a rant to something more reflective and appropriate with a close GP friend.
My beloved Inside Health has come to my aide today and neatly encapsulated why I wanted to lodge these complaints in an article by Professor Susan Bewley an Obstetrician from University College London who was discussing the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths.
She said this-
“Good doctors (and
midwives) pay attention to detail and even in death the details or the stories
and journeys (women) have made are very important and I think that it is only
respectful to look at that in detail so that we can learn for the benefit of
the next (woman).
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