NOT THE SHARPEST KNIVES IN THE DRAWER: British Medicine’s Incompetence Kills Impaled Bum Mum
After a drunken fall in a friend's bathroom in 2005, Cindy Corton, 35, suffered excruciating pain during the two years it took for doctors at two hospitals in central England to find out what was wrong with her, even after several X-rays – and it was pretty hard to miss, reports The Sun (London):
[A six-inch long toilet brush handle] was stuck in the flesh of her bottom.
By then what should have been a routine procedure to remove it had become much more dangerous because the handle had become embedded in her pelvis.
After two unsuccessful operations in 2007 the mother-of-one was in such agony that she agreed to undergo further surgery in June last year despite being told it could prove fatal.
Corton spent more than 10 hours in surgery at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, central England, but died from massive blood loss. ...
While West Lincolnshire coroner Stuart Fisher called the thin serrated plastic handle "a significant foreign object,” Corton's husband, Peter, 61, attributes his wife’s death less to incompetence than to hospitals “trying to save money and doing things as cheaply as possible.” Either way, another black eye for the quality of British healthcare.
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