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Woman chronicled her own death from meningitis in phone pictures as doctors told her spreading rash was only a ‘minor infection’

Friday, July 30, 2010 22:29
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  • Doctors stopped antibiotics and gave her headache tablets
  • Medics 'didn't see' deadly rash spreading across her limbs
  • Patient died just 14 hours after being admitted to hospital
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A desperate patient texted photos of a deadly rash spreading across her body to her mother as she lay dying on a hospital bed while being ignored by NHS doctors.

 

Critically ill Jo Dowling, 25, sent more than 40 pictures and messages to her mother and best friend as her life ebbed away.

 

Doctors ignored the rash and refused to believe she had blood poisoning caused by the meningitis bug, taking her off antibiotics and giving her painkillers instead. 

 
Rash: Joanne Dowling died from blood poisoning after doctors denied her antibiotics
Rash: Joanne Dowling died from blood poisoning after doctors denied her antibiotics
 

Rash: Joanne Dowling died from blood poisoning after doctors denied her antibiotics

 

Hours earlier, the young woman had been diagnosed by her family GP with suspected meningococcal septicaemia after developing a purple skin rash and low blood pressure.

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298960/Woman-25-dying-blood-poisoning-texted-photos-deadly-rash-mother-doctors-ignored-her.html#ixzz0vCvIkz7X

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  • Doctors are no more than ‘leach-setting blood-letters’ now, than they were 400-years ago. It’s that they merely have more tools to make more money, to be more heartless with.

    I had ‘severe back agony’ that led to a diagnosis of ‘kidney stones’. I was given pain killers and sent home. TWICE, to let them pass. On the second event, I found out that a neighbor had sprayed INSECTICIDE and after addressing it with him, he said he would do this no more – the pain went away, and has not happened again. I was poisoned, not bestowed with kidney stones.

    Modern medicine is quackery that pays big bucks.

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