This reminds me of a really scary decision I had to make 2 months ago.
PLEASE BEAR WITH ME DESPITE THE LENGTH!
I was on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from Jeddah and this 48 year old
diabetic smoker (she'd had three bloody fags on the flight) who had had 2 MI s
the last two months back has chest pain. Yours truly decided that he was bored
and jumped up saying "......let me through I'm a doctor" not knowing the
scenario.
She the patient was in chest pain at rest and was sob........
There was some maxillofacial chap who turned up screaming that we should land
the plane even though the pain settled on 2 GTN and an 02 mask plastered on
her face.
The plastics boy went up to the captain and again said we had to land the
plane.....the captain said that we were "somewhere over the Med" and to land
in Italy we had to dump fuel which takes 1 hour. (No not very eco friendly).
In the end I kept on checking on her managed to overrule the maxfax chap
because the captain reckoned I'd know more as a GP(THATS RARE ISN'T IT), and
told him to full steam ahead to Blighty. I was not pleased about getting
lectured by the max fax chap about being my patient's advocate and my duties
as a doctor........but was too petrified about
Scenario 1) I get sued because she dies from an MI
Scenario 2) She doesn''t die and I get landed with a huge lawsuit from an
airline company for accomodation and new fights for a jumbo full of people.
Even though I had asked for her to be on an ambulance from Heathrow ...I found
out she refused to go with the paramedics
later......@@@@%^&%&*$&&%&%£&*%%^&*!!!!!!!
Moral: Keep Schtum on Jumbos when they ask for a doctor
Shahid
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