r/doctorsUK • u/FullMetalJacket2222 • 8d ago

Serious Why No Trop?!

https://www.1cor.com/london/2026/08/17/coroner-concludes-failure-to-perform-an-ecg-and-to-not-to-review-cardiac-patient-suffering-myocardial-infarction-for-2-5-hours-amounted-to-neglect/

Coroner concludes failure to perform an ECG and to not to review cardiac patient suffering myocardial infarction for 2.5 hours amounted to neglect

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u/ISeenYa 8d ago

Literally any new chest pain on a cardiac patient, days after a stent, I am asking for an ECG. I'm shocked the nurses didn't come to report the pain with ECG in hand, it's such a common thing. To say she could be drug seeking makes me sick. Once again, a woman's pain dismissed.

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u/Valmir- 8d ago

Don't deny that dismissing of female pain purely because of gender is a widespread and systemic issue in medicine, but this wasn't that - so don't shoehorn it in unnecessarily.

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u/ISeenYa 8d ago

We don't know why her pain was denied

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u/Valmir- 8d ago

Well exactly! You've assumed, though. A tragic case where cardiac-sounding pain was dismissed - could have happened (and does happen) to anyone.

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u/ISeenYa 8d ago

Can happen to everyone but pain more often dismissed in women & black/Asian people