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SPUGGIE J · 08-02-2006, 12:37

"An investigation has been launched after a top cancer hospital gave a teenage patient a potentially fatal overdose of radiation. Lisa Norris, 15, was given the overdose 17 times while she received treatment for a brain tumour at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow.
Human error has been blamed for the mistakes which happened at each of her 17 radiotherapy sessions."

How can something like this happen to a person and be put down to "human error" and that it is unlikely to happen again. Here is a young lass with her life ahead of her who might now die from the radiation given and not the tumour she was being treated for. 17 overdoses of radiation and no one even checked to be sure the dosage is correct beggers belief and when they realise what has happened it is too late.

I thought there was supposed to be safeguards against this sort of incedent happening yet they seem to have been non existant in this case. How can you tell someone your tumour is gone but we irradiated you that much that you could die anyway. The NHS seems to be making some spectacular blunders lately and to me do not have an answer to them or anyway of preventing others. We are supposed to have a healthcare system that is the envy of the world but how does it look with this kind of blunder!!!

08-02-2006, 12:37	#1
SPUGGIE J God Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Not sure anymore Posts: 9,009 Blog Entries: 10 Liked: 1 times Rep Power: 515	Hospital blunder "An investigation has been launched after a top cancer hospital gave a teenage patient a potentially fatal overdose of radiation. Lisa Norris, 15, was given the overdose 17 times while she received treatment for a brain tumour at the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow. Human error has been blamed for the mistakes which happened at each of her 17 radiotherapy sessions." How can something like this happen to a person and be put down to "human error" and that it is unlikely to happen again. Here is a young lass with her life ahead of her who might now die from the radiation given and not the tumour she was being treated for. 17 overdoses of radiation and no one even checked to be sure the dosage is correct beggers belief and when they realise what has happened it is too late. I thought there was supposed to be safeguards against this sort of incedent happening yet they seem to have been non existant in this case. How can you tell someone your tumour is gone but we irradiated you that much that you could die anyway. The NHS seems to be making some spectacular blunders lately and to me do not have an answer to them or anyway of preventing others. We are supposed to have a healthcare system that is the envy of the world but how does it look with this kind of blunder!!! __________________ All comments above are nothing to do with here and therefore not the resposibility of the Accrington Web site owners admins or mods. THEY ARE MINE!!!!