27th
January 2013
Hi
again, it’s me, Peggy
My aim
here is again to prove to you that the medics have been trying at all times to
discredit me and refusing to treat me when them knowing at all times the true source of my problem.
I am
now going to show you evidence that the bony lesion (as removed from my Right
knee on 22/11/2002) was actually in my knee in 1988. This being the case after it
was left in my knee during the operation to remove my patella (kneecap) in
September 1987.
See
copied below an extract taken from my Medical Records at the Rotherham District
General Hospital. In the Clinic Note for October 1988 you can see that it
states that I had informed the consultant of my knee gave way (it felt
unstable) and my knee locked occasionally. Whenever my knee locked I had
problems with straightening my painful Right leg after such an occurrence.
It is
written in the Clinic Notes for ??/10/88 see below:
Below
is an extract taken from a book on Orthopaedic Trauma, Injuries of the knee
joint 5th Edition (Library Ref: WE870 (s) photocopies were obtained
from the Sheffield Northern General Hospital library. You will see from reading
the extract that a piece of bone shears off either the patella or the tibia
when the patient suffers recurrent dislocation of the patella, as was the case
in my case!
Page 302
MEDIAL
ASPECT PATELLA
M E D I A
L TANGENTIAL
OSTEOCHONDRAL
F R A C T I R E
(ENDOGENOUS)
This fracture (Kroner, 1905} in
acute form is a common and important complication of traumatic dislocation (see
Ch. 2).
Pathological
anatomy. In
the course of dislocation the quadriceps contracting in an attempt to recover
the situation, exerts considerable compression force which, as the patella
passes over the margin of the lateral condyle. shears off a portion of the articular
cartilage together with a wedge-shaped fragment of the underlying canellous
tissue from the inframedial margin of the articular surface (Figs 10.24 to
10.2" Sometimes it is the margin of the condyle and occasionally both
margin of patella and margin of femur are fractured (Figs 2.SO to 2.S3).
This fracture of the patella
differs from the lateral marginal fracture in the absence of splinting by soft
tissue. The fragment is therefore displaced into the joint immediately or is
cast into the synovial cavity as a loose body of mysterious origin at a later
date.
Clinical
features. In
acute form as a complication of a traumatic dislocation which has been reduced
it is difficult, if not impossible, to diagnose on clinical examination: only
suspected.
It may not be seen in antero-posterior
and lateral radiographs; and the painful knee cannot be flexed to obtain
"skyline" views. This is why exploration is indicated in such cases.
(Ch. 2).
In the form complicating recurrent
dislocation its presence in axial radiograph is useful confirmative evidence of
the diagnosis (Figs 10.24 to 10.27). The fracture rarely exists as a separate
entity. The clinical features are those of the condition it complicates.
Sometimes retro-patella symptoms and tenderness located to the medial aspect
may be the presenting features. Occasionally locking produced by a loose body,
the site origin of which may not be immediately evident, is the first incident
which calls attention to a recurrent dislocation.
Treatment: At the exploratory
operation for traumatic dislocation a large defect is repaired (Fig 10.28 to
10.31). Experience at the second
operation to remove the means of internal fixation shows that the restoration
indistinguishable from normal can be attained. If the fragment is small it is removed
and the margins of the defect smoothed as occasion demands………………
On the
9th of January 1990 at the time I was admitted to the Sheffield
Northern General Hospital with my knee locked in a bent position, Mr Saleh
(Orthopaedic Surgeon) brutally straitened my very painful leg without first
administering any pain killers or pain-killing injection. It was nothing less
than torture. It had been arranged for this to be done in theatre under a
general anaesthetic but when Mr Saleh had read through my notes and saw that
there was pending litigation against Mr Majumdar, a colleague of his, I allege
that this was his way of paying me back.
However,
this no less than brutal action by Mr Saleh had actually propelled the bony
lesion out of the knee joint and into soft tissues in the medial aspects of my
knee, and it remained there until it was removed in November 2002, some
12-years later.
I did
have x-rays taken of my Right knee on arrival at SNGH A/E on 9/1/1990, and my
medical records as held at the Sheffield Northern General Hospital (Now
Sheffield Teaching Hospital Trust) record this fact. However, when I sought
disclosure of my medical records and they failed to disclose my x-rays them at
the SNGH contended that no x-rays were taken of my knee on 9/1/1990. A letter
from Chief Executive Mr Andrew Cash wrote to me directly saying that x-rays
were not taken of my knee on the attendance at his hospital on 9/1/1990 yet it
states in my medical records “Radio-logically” there is no bony injury. That
proves x-rays were taken but I was being denied them.
When I
sought copies of my knee x-rays as taken at Newmarket General Hospital on
28/11/1989, they wrote back to me saying they had been destroyed. I allege that
the bony lesion, in accordance with the recurrent dislocation of the patella,
had been propelled into the knee joint and x-rays dated 28/11/1989 and 9/1/1990
would have proved that to be the case beyond a shadow of doubt.
The
x-rays that were taken at the Bassetlaw Hospital on 19/08/1991 (those I have in
my possession) show that bony lesion to be situated on the medial aspects of my
Right knee.
I
approached Mr Kieran Colton in January 1997, the then Medical Records Manager, at
the Bassetlaw Hospital and explained that Mr Zeraati, the Orthopaedic Surgeon
at the Bassetlaw had identified a 19/08/91 LAT VIEW x-ray of my Right knee and
the bony lesion that could be clearly seen on the medial aspects of my knee in
that film and I asked him to keep it safe as my x-rays had a habit of going
missing. Mr Colton confirmed that he would. Subsequently those at the Bassetlaw
Hospital denied that that particular x-ray had existed.
At a
meeting with Mr Colton and when discussing that I was not able to get
treatment, he advised me that I would not be able to obtain treatment for my
knee because I was on “Patient Tracking”. Whatever that means?
Mr
Colton, at the time Mills Kemp & Brown Solicitors were instructed on my
Clinical Negligence case did deliver-up to MKB (eventually and after months of
wrangling) the original x-rays dated 19/08/1991. However, in a recorded
meeting, with Solicitor Mr J Brain at MKB, Mr Brain told me that Mr Colton had
specifically ordered Mr Brain not to let Mrs Barnes have sight of those x-rays.
Why not???
In
late 2005 I had requested the return of my x-rays and MRI scans that I had
loaned to MKB whilst they had conduct of my case together with those that had
been obtained from the various hospitals whilst pursuing my case. I was refused
the return of those films by MKB. However, In December 2005 (and I have this
fact in a sound recording and also in a copy letter dated 15/12/2005) that Mr
Nigel Clifton (the then Chief Executive) at Bassetlaw Hospital, himself
requested of Mr Brain at MKB Solicitors that he send my x-rays to him direct.
This Mr Brain did, including x-rays and MRI scans that I had obtained and paid
for myself. The MRI and scans had cost me around £900.00 at the time of me
having the scans done in February 1998.
I made
an application to the Sheffield Combined Court to have my x-rays returned to me
from the Bassetlaw Hospital but the Court refused to make an Order to have
those films returned to me. Strange, very strange, what??
The
act of Mr Brain of MKB disclosing my personal data (in the form of x-rays,
those I had obtained from the various hospitals where I had sought treatment)
without first obtaining my consent (which I most certainly would NOT have given him) was in fact a Breach
of confidentiality and of the Data Protection Act.
This
true story continues …… watch this space
