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"More From Lady in Waiting re Gallbladder surgery delay."

About: Ninewells Hospital / General Surgery

(as the patient),

Had yet another  bad gallbladder infection and pancreatitis. Which had me back as another emergency admission to  Ninewells Hospital.  This time for 6 days.   Again the staff were all really wonderful and deserve more praise for what they are coping with than I can express.    The doctors I saw also showed concern after hearing my history.  And I really do sympathize with the constraints they must be working under when it comes to rescheduling procedures.  But again I am back home with a course of antibiotics and my pain meds when needed.  But unfortunately no-one could commit to a time scale  at all.   
This time I had over a months warning that something was wrong once more as I started having pain and feeling unwell. I went to my GP and was told there was nothing that could be done and to go home and keep taking pain meds.  Is there anyone else at all I could contact if the same thing happens again?  As if I had been seen sooner the level of infection would not have got to the level that it ended up as 1 MORE emergency admission to hospital with the associated expense to the NHS and missery to myself.
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Response from Stuart Keys, Clinical Care Group Manager, General Surgery, Urology, Vascular Surgery, NHS Tayside 3 years ago
Stuart Keys
Clinical Care Group Manager, General Surgery, Urology, Vascular Surgery,
NHS Tayside
Submitted on 27/02/2021 at 19:21
Published on Care Opinion at 19:21


I am sorry to be so late picking this message up. As you have explained in your message, there are some real challenges at the moment to provide the level of surgical procedures that we would like. However, we are doing all we can to step up activity. If you could send me an e-mail (stuart.keys@nhs.scot) I will look into your situation. I completely understand how difficult and unsatisfactory this is for you and apologise for that.

Kind regards,

Stuart

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