Death due to mismanagement and negligence in chemotherapy administration by oncologist
yogesh thaware
(Querist) 18 April 2013
This query is : Resolved
hi,
My mom died recently on 5th april 2013 due to chemotherapy complications.she was diagnosed pT3N0Mx breast cancer after pathological report of removed tumor came (she underwent masectomy surgery of her right breast.her estrogen progesterone receptor were positive and HER-2 was negative.the oncologist planned TAC chemotherapy and enrolled my mom in clinical trial of pegfilgrastim drug.a complete blood count test was done every day and reports of daily CBC were in possession of the doctor and his health team.my mom developed severe complications such as high fever(above 39 degree celcius),dierria,difficulty in breathing,inability to walk on 7th day after first chemotherapy drug was administered.she was immidiatly admitted in the ICU of the hospital after i reported it to the hospital staff.she died on 8th day due to febrile neutropenia (reason for death given by doctor).i suspected some foul play and miscalculation on the part of oncologist doctor and hence demended all chemotherapy treatment documents and chronological step by step squential discription leading to her death.after going through the documents i am extremly shocked and agest to see that my mom's absolute neutrophile count started declining on 5th day(it was 8400),6th day it was 600 and on 7th day ot was 275 which is an dengerious threshold point of severe neutropenia.yet the doctor who was in possession of CBC report did not act swiftly by putting her in constant observation and monitoring at his hospital.by the time she was admitted for neutropenia her immune system was completely damaged to an irreparable extent.her oxygen saturation level also dropped to 90 % to 60% in last five hours.i personally feel that mom would have survived if the doctor had been more alert and attentive.before cancer could kill her it was chemotherapy that killed her.is it a fit case of medical negligence.can i complain in police and the medical doctors regulatory body.lawyers and experts please guide.
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 18 April 2013
You can definitely file a police complaint in the given matter simultaneously a consumer complaint but prior to that obtain the written advice from a higher medical institute that the treatment was erroneous.
ajay sethi
(Expert) 18 April 2013
you need expert opinion that doctors were negligent in treatment . complain to MCI against said doctors
V R SHROFF
(Expert) 18 April 2013
Yogesh:
As you know, Cancer patients have very less survival ratio: rare cases survive.
Majority die.
Dr. is not your enemy that will play foul with ur mom.
It cannot be attributed to negligence of Dr., Unless in a rare and very special case.
After all , it is a medical practice.
Choice is yours.
I cannot say , as it is a job of Expert Medical Profession to prove negligence, which is again a rare possibility in ur fvr..
R.K Nanda
(Expert) 18 April 2013
send legal notice to doctor and claim
compensation for his negligence.
M V Gupta
(Expert) 22 April 2013
U should have an expert opinion that there was medical negligence in the treatment given to ur Mom. Without that u cannot reach any conclusion in the matter or give any notice to the Doctor.
