Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

 

I think its time I gave you a bit of evidence here to show you just what I’ve been up against with the medical profession. As I’ve said earlier, once they became aware that there was pending litigation against one of their colleagues they closed ranks.

 

You will have to bear with me on the way I have inserted the various images and the amount of distance seen between an image and the attached text. I am 70 and very new at blogging.

 

My GP had referred me onto Mr Elson in Sheffield and subsequently onto Mr Hunter at the Bassetlaw Hospital. See copied below an extract taken from the GP’s Lloyd George medical records card as held at the Woodsetts Surgery Nr Worksop. Just take a look at the entry made on 6/7/90 by my then GP Dr Haldar, where she has written “Reg Elson wont take it on. – Mr Hunter – he says “No Thanks”. Can an Orthopaedic Surgeon refuse a GP referral under the NHS???

 

Now, is that discrimination or what??? 

 

 

 

 

 

 So as you know what I am talking about when I say it was a bony lesion, take a look at the Right hand side of the x-ray copied below which is a 26 July 1996 x-ray of my Right knee. I have ringed the bony lesion which is termed as been in the medial aspects of my Right knee. I have also copied below a scanned image of the bony lesion as was removed from my Right knee.

 

According to the Medical Dictionary Medial, when referring to knees, means the side of the knee nearest to the other knee.

 

I also have a copy of the Attendance Note made by Solicitor Miss K Bhogal of Beachcroft Wansbroughs Solicitors of a meeting held on at the Bassetlaw Hospital on 9^th June1998 where Radiologist Dr Howard told all those at the meeting that Mr Barnes had got the meaning of the word “Medial” wrong, as Medial meant inside the knee joint, and there were loose fragments in the medial aspect she said but they were inside the knee joint.

 

Dr Howard, at the meeting termed the bony lesion as an “Opaque Opacity” she also referred to it as a piece of bone. Mr Zeraati in 1996 first said it was a foreign body but went on to referrer to it as a calcified nodule in his report. Professor Galasko, to whom I will refer to in detail later, referred to it in his report as a “fluffy calcification” but at a consultation with Dr Renshaw (Him that inappropriately and negligently injected a Guanethidine Pain-Block injection directly into my Right foot, as opposed to a vein, in 1993) told me that it was not foreign to me as it was a piece of bone. 

 

Mr Andrew Sweeny, Physiotherapist at the Rotherham Physiotherapy Centre, did say when reviewing the 1991 x-rays against the x-ray reports, that the Bas****s have turned it. Meaning the left knee report had been swapped for that of the Right knee Report.

 

You will see from Miss KK Bhogal’s Attendance Note copied below that there was reference to “no metal” and there being “no clips”. It had been a RED HERRING by Mr Saleh at the Sheffield Northern General who had said the signal voids seen in an MRI scan of my Right knee could be a metal clip that had been left in my knee, and he went on to draw me the shape  of a staple as they sometimes use in knee operations. There had been reference to evidence of “Screw Fixation” in a MRI Report of my Right knee in 1998.

 

Copied below is the bony lesion that was removed from my Right knee by Mr Bickerstaff (Orthopaedic Surgeon) at the Thornbury Hospital on 22 November 2002. It measures approximately 2cms across its widest part.

See copied below a true extract taken from Solicitor Bhogal’s Report of the meeting of 9^th June 1998 where Radiologist Dr Howard contradicts our correct understanding of the word medial.

See also copied below the x-ray report for the x-rays taken of both my knees in 19/08/1991 and you can see the date it was received at the GP Practice (22/08/1991) where Dr Haldar has written “No further action required”.

 

Note also that there is no Patella (kneecap) present in the 1996 x-ray. The kneecap had been removed in the operation on my Right knee in 1987, yet you can see there was no mention of this in the x-ray Report dated 20/08/1991 as copied below. I believe the 1991 report for my Left knee is actually the Report for my Right knee, and they could not report on the patella been absent because to do so would have shown what they had done.

 

I have been informed that Radiologists always report on LEFT then RIGHT and this is standard practice. Mr Bourne, Health Sector at the ICO, did say in a letter, one copied to me, that even from the semantics of the report he believed Mrs Barnes had a case. For instance, how could the radiologist start the report by reporting “Identical changes are present” when the Left knee report preceded the Right knee report? It’s not semantically correct.    

 

Had the medics not closed Rank and advised me of it being a bony lesion left in my knee from my having suffered recurrent dislocation of my knee in earlier years and that Mr Majumdar had failed to recognise this fact when he operated and removed my patella in 1987, then I would not have been denied a far better quality of life since my having that operation. Neither would I have had to suffer the trauma nor the endless sleepless nights by going through unnecessary court cases.

 

In our Local Newspaper it did quote Mr Nigel Clifton (the then Chief Executive of Bassetlaw Hospital) as saying he fought clinical negligence cases vigorously. My now knowing what has happened in my case I interpret that as meaning even by them going to the extent of denying medical records and/or destroying x-rays. When I’ve discussed this with other claimants they have apparently come-up against the same problem in their cases.

 

 

 

You can see for yourselves, from the 26 July 1996 X-ray shown above, that it shows the bony lesion very clearly in the Medial aspects of my Right knee, and you can also see for yourselves that the X-ray Report (as copied below) for the above 26 July 1996 X-ray where Dr C R Merrill Reports on there been no change to the knee since the films of 1991. This proves the bony lesion was in my Right knee in 1991 because it is reported as been seen in my knee in the films of 1996, yet the image remains unaltered since the films of 1991.

 

 

 

 

 

I will be putting more info on this blog within the next few days. Watch this space!!