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"The way the doctor treated us as a family"

About: Princess Alexandra Hospital / General medicine

(as a relative),

My son was admitted to Harvey ward. At the time he had bone cancer. He was 21 at the time. He had his leg amputated 8 weeks before hand. He had chronic diarrhoea and sepsis.

We were told that he was going to die and to say goodbye there was nothing more they could do for him. We asked for him to be put in intensive care. But they said it was wasting a bed as he was dying. They needed the beds for people they could save and they couldn't save him.

We eventually got him transferred to university collage hospital London and they made complaints. We were told that they were reviewing him and would have put him in intensive care if he had got worse. How much worse did he have to get than dying?

Luckily the care he received at UHC saved his life. He was in intensive care there for over a month. They saved his life. I fell 100 % sure if we had left him in princess Alexandra hospital he would not be here now.

We trusted them once more a year later and they messed up again. I have no trust in them at all.

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