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"Fish bone in throat ignored"

About: Croydon University Hospital

Sent to A &E by 111 after getting a fish bone stuck in throat. The Dr did not look into my throat but sent me to have an x-ray. He said they couldn’t see anything and decided I had scratched my throat. I insisted I could feel the bone sticking in at the very back. I was ignored and not once did he even ask to look at my throat. He just told me to go to St George’s if I started struggling to breathe and sent me home. My daughter met me at the hospital and once home she looked into my throat and could see where it was and after a few attempts she managed to remove it with tweezers. I am appalled I was not even examined. He would have seen the bone if he had looked. This is just poor care.

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