1. Five-year-old girl with asthma dies hours after GP refused to see her because she was “four minutes late”.
Girl, 5, dies hours after GP refused to see her ‘because she was 4 minutes late’ https://t.co/WF6DEME2zl
— Metro (@MetroUK) February 26, 2017
Five-year-old Ellie-May Clark died hours after she was due to see her local doctor after suffering an asthma attack at school in Wales.
Ellie-May’s mother, Shanice, said Dr Joanne Rowe declined to see her daughter because they were “four minutes late” to the appointment about 5pm, despite being aware the girl had suffered a dangerous asthma attack earlier in the day, The Metro reports.
Shanice found her daughter not breathing at 10:35pm the same night, and rushed her to hospital. Ellie-May died shortly afterwards.
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#3 hero! Sending all my hope for a speedy recovery to this good man.
#1 My GP has done this to me before. He left me sitting there waiting for an HOUR until eventually he told me he had skipped me because I was late. I checked with reception, and apparently I was 1 minute late (on their system - I had thought at the time I was about 5 mins early). I was LIVID. I remember thinking at the time that he had no idea what I was there for - it could have been symptoms of heart attack, stroke, ectopic pregnancy. Just such an extreme level of arrogance!!