Showing posts with label poor english. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poor english. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 April 2010

Foreign doctor with poor English 'misdiagnoses toddler's leukaemia as trapped wind'

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A toddler with leukaemia was misdiagnosed as having trapped wind by a foreign doctor working at a scandal-hit out-of-hours service, her family claimed today.


Taylor Codling, three, had a temperature of 40C (104F) and her skin had turned yellow when her father rushed her to a weekend clinic.

But in a check-up that lasted just two minutes, the Eastern European doctor diagnosed trapped wind and sent them to pick up a bottle of Gripe Water from Tesco.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265643/Foreign-doctor-poor-English-misdiagnoses-toddlers-leukaemia--trapped-wind.html#ixzz0m6X43JT3