7^th April 2014 [Blog No. 49]

Hello again, it’s me, Peggy

I’ve been experimenting with putting the sound recording on my blog here of the consultation I had with Ms Amanda Rees, Orthopaedic Consultant at the Rotherham District General Hospital on 23 December 1998 together with some pics. You will see that in my attempt here I am showing you various x-rays and scans where in the x-rays you can clearly see the bony lesion that was eventually removed from the medial aspect of my Right knee at the Thornbury Hospital on 22 November 2002.

At the consultation with Ms Rees on 23/12/1998 Ms Rees reviewed the x-rays and scans that I had taken with me, those undertaken at various hospitals. When reviewing one of the x-rays of my Right knee she advised me that she could identify flashes of metal in my knee and requested further x-rays.

When I attended the x-ray department the radiographer said that he was surprised that Ms Rees had specifically requested x-rays to be done on a machine that had been rendered obsolete but he went onto say that what the lady wants the lady gets. The x-rays turned out to be covered in artefacts thereby rendering the x-rays not fit for purpose. The expert at the ensuing Independent Review at the RDGH reported the X-ray machine to have been made obsolete due to it having damaged Intensifier screens, whatever they were?

When my husband (he’s the one shown in the photo in the audio/video by the way) and I returned to Ms Rees’ consultation room my husband realised that Ms Rees had changed her stance somewhat, so he switched on his sound recorder and recorded the remainder of the consultation. That’s what you are about to hear in the audio/video below.

You will hear Ms Rees denying the RDGH having any medical records due to them being destroyed after five years, she said. The medical records that I hold are complete and go back as far as 1954.

What you are about to hear is the then ongoing consultation with Ms Rees. The ruler shown in the photographs of the x-rays showing the bony lesion (I still have the bony lesion in my possession) is calibrated in centimetres.

At one point in the conversation you will hear Ms Rees sarcastically advising us that we would have to consult a “clever solicitor” if we wanted to know what it was that was actually in my knee. Now, that is what I had gone to see her for, and I allege that she was clearly covering the backs of her colleagues here. Where is the Hippocratic Oath?

After the consultation on 23/12/1998 Ms Rees wanted to refer me onto a pain management specialist as opposed to her operating on my knee. She obtained copy notes from the Bassetlaw Hospital that referred to litigation and forwarded these onto the Pain Management specialist.

The matter progressed onto an Independent Review via Mr Mark Griffiths at the Community Health Centre in Rotherham. You can see details of the Review Hearing at the RDGH on Blog No. 24 dated 27^th April 2013. Hopefully, in the very near future, I will be able to post that sound recording on my blog because that too became a complete fit-up. I did request a copy of the “Draft Report” prior to the Final Report being completed because I understood I should have had sight of the Draft, but I was denied it. So much for transparency in out NHS!!

This true story continues …….

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