Hello again, it’s me, Peggy
Covering-up mistakes in our NHS is now in the media on a daily basis, and yet I've been trying to expose cover-ups in my clinical negligence case since I was crippled by Orthopaedic Surgeon Pratiff Majumdar in 1987.
I reiterate again here; and as you can see from my previous blogs, I allege I was crippled further in my Right foot in November 1993 at the Bassetlaw Hospital by Dr Renshaw when he administered the Guanethidine Pain-Block injection directly into my Right foot, as opposed to a vein.
I allege the injection was both inappropriate and negligently administered and according to advice received from an expert in Guanethidine Injections (in 2008) it should not have been injected into my foot for the pain in my knee in any event.
Before I embark on what happened with my case when Mr Brain of Mills Kemp & Brown Solicitors had conduct of my case from 2001, I want to refer you to a letter to my husband dated 8 July 1998 as received from Jonathan Asbridge (Acting Chief Executive) at the Royal London Hospital. At the item marked No. 4 in his letter he confirms that x-rays show a piece of bone on the medial side of my knee. It’s not a foreign body, he said, and neither did he refer to it as a foreign or calcified body.
In 1998 Mr John King at the Royal London Hospital was prepared to operate on my knee to remove this piece of bone but once he became aware of the pending litigation against the Bassetlaw Hospital he told me that I would have to learn to walk on my hands. Meaning before anyone would help me. He was covering-up the backs of his colleagues, including the back of Prof. Dandy who, according to Zeraati, “had missed the bugger” (bony lesion) during his exploratory operation on my Right knee in November 1989.
Dr Renshaw at the Bassetlaw Hospital had referred to it as being a piece of bone, when at a meeting in 1996 but that was only after he had become aware of Mr Zeraati having shown it to me in the 19/08/1991 Bassetlaw Hospital x-ray. However, Renshaw conveniently failed to report it as such in his clinic notes.
They had always diagnosed my Right knee pain as been due to the controversial diagnosis RSD to prevent me having a case against the NHS. Since my having the botched Guanethidine injection put into my foot in November 1993 they’ve subsequently diagnosed the resulting crippling pain (osteoporosis) in my foot as again being due to RSD. They just never give up!
According to Mr Paul Cooke, Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Hospital in Oxford (in May 2009) due to the problem relating back as far as 1993 (the Guanethidine Injection) there is nothing that can be done now, it should have been dealt with much earlier.
Now, MKB:
I first instructed Mills Kemp & Brown Solicitors in 2001 on the alleged clinical negligence claim for the botched Guanethidine Injection put into my foot in 1993 which was gradually crippling me with severe pain in my Right foot. The case took quite some time to kick-off so to speak, and it was not until around November 2001 that Mr Brain actually got around to seeking disclosure of my medical records.
Mr Barron MP met with Mr Brain at Mills Kemp & Brown Solicitors on 22 November 2002, which was the day I had the bony lesion removed from my Right knee by Mr Bickerstaff at the Thornbury Private Hospital in Sheffield. The operation was paid for by the NHS. Mr Brain had always contented that the previous case against the Bassetlaw Hospital was passed and this new claim was for my Right foot problem. However, strangely, after his meeting with Mr Barron MP Mr Brain seemed intent on pursuing the previous claim regarding my knee problem?
For what it’s worth, I had been advised that the mere fact the NHS had paid for the removal of the bony lesion (which had been left in my Right knee since the operation to remove my patella in 1987) meant that they had accepted liability in my claim. However, as I’ve said, the claim I was actually bringing to MKB in 2001 was for the alleged negligence by the Bassetlaw Hospital regarding the maladministration of the Guanethidine Pain Block Injection.
I was referred by Mr Brain to a Professor Galasko (Expert Orthopaedic Surgeon) in Cheadle, Cheshire. I was not at all happy with the referral because Professor Galasko had informed Mr Brain that he was a friend and colleague of Professor Dandy, the surgeon who I had criticised for a substandard of care when at the Newmarket Hospital in 1989/90.
Furthermore, Professor Galasko confirmed to Mr Brain in his letter to Brain dated 11 December 2002 (See copy below) that he was not qualified in Guanethidine Pain-Block Injections. However, Mr Brain went ahead regardless of my protesting against the referral.
When Professor Galasko made his report for the court he had only reported on my knee. He did not mention my Right foot problem. I had to return to Manchester for Galasko to make another report for the court on the administration of the Guanethidine Pain-Block injection in my Right foot.
In his report he informed the court that he was not qualified in the administration of Guanethidine Pain-Block injections. I contended that Professor Galasko should have categorically refused to make any such report due to his admission of not been qualified in that field of medicine and the fact he was a friend and colleague of one of the surgeons criticised in my case., and still further, that he was a member of the Professional Advisory Panel of the NHS Litigation Authority, who were the very same people I was suing. How’s that for a complete stitch-up!!
The reports made by Galasko contained many factual errors, and he had glossed-over the parts where Prof. Dandy had had any involvement in my treatment. I allege that I was well and truly stitched-up.
The cost of Galasko’s input was in excess of £7, 500, and he subsequently requested a further £2,000.00 if I wanted him to correct the factual errors contained within his reports. Strangely, in a subsequent court hearing where and when I had objected to his further costs the judge agreed with his request.
I reiterate here; now that Public Funding has been abolished by this Government for Clinical Negligence cases Litigants in person will not stand a cat in hells chance of obtaining justice!!!
They've just given the medics a licence to lame and kill.
I have just received a copy of a letter addressed to the Rt. Hon Mr Kevin J Barron MP from a Government Quango where the content of that letter further shows hostility toward me, and which further depicts that I am certainly black-listed from having access to justice. Now, the head of the aforesaid government body came on Breakfast television just after she had been appointed, telling everyone she was going to be transparent in matters relating to the NHS. I can’t go into any further detail about this matter at this time because Mr Barron has agreed to deal with the matter himself, direct.
Before I sign-off I want to thank the editor@medneg.com for referring to my blog in his email on 19/6/2013 to his members, and also to my husband.
This true story continues …….
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