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John they’re still at it with these stupid tests, my best friends mum was a recent casualty of an incompetent gp and then shoddy hospital care and advice.

She died a few weeks ago, her first trip to the gps had her diagnosed with a pulled muscle. She went back a few days later because of the pain, different gp checked her lungs and said she had pneumonia, gave her antibiotics and sent her for an X-ray.

Hospital left her for over 9 hrs waiting for one, they also told her not to take the antibiotics the gp had prescribed, to go home and they’d be in contact in a few days with her results.

Six days later they rang to inform her they’d found a shadow on her lung.

She was immediately admitted but because she was now so seriously ill with pneumonia the cancer they had found was an afterthought.

Had they left her to take the antibiotics she would have had a fighting chance.

The neglect going on within the NHS is astounding, here is a patient laid up dying and they went to do a covid test.

My friend told them under no circumstances that they were doing one, her and two of her siblings stayed and guarded her around the clock between them.

Staff doing these pointless tests really need to have a long hard look in the mirror at what they have and are still participating in, shame on them.

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I no longer recognise the service in which I once served, then again if I am being brutally honest we trained staff to be automatons following protocols.

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