Sunday, November 15, 2009

Drug Blunder At KKH - The Public Should Know About This (Part 4)

During the inquiry on the 12th November 2009, my family members (Dad, Brother, Sis-in-law, Aunt Geraldine, Uncle James and Uncle Robin and Cuz Jeremy) attended the session but was left with even more question marks and anger!

Contradicting statements were made. Words didn't exactly mean a thing to me, for whatever that was said, it didn't exactly go well with what we have been experiencing. How should one believe that the hospital is taking this seriously when 1) We didn't get any specialist coming in immediately to update us on the situation/condition of my mum? 2) Days after the incident, we had so many differing medical opinions ? 3) Rather than to assure or cure the victims, we were told that the hospital was looking into the matter, found out the mistake was the negligence of 2 pharmacist, and spent time counselling them when they broke down upon knowing their mistake?

Counselling the pharmacists was much more important?!?! We all found it hard to swallow honestly.

If you thought that was disturbing, here's something even worse.

Dr Soh, my mum's chemo doctor, kept throwing medical statistics and facts at us (I HAVE THIS RECORDED), saying that the international guide for the administration of doxorubicin is acceptable even within 6 minutes, but has higher risks on the heart, which was why she prescribed it to be infused over 3 days. But she kept insisting "it is okay to have it administered over 6 minutes."

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY IT'S OKAY WHEN YOU'VE CLEARLY MENTIONED THERE'S HIGHER RISK?!?!

It made me lose my cool and I argued with her by saying that if it is okay, then I suggest that you have all your patients to complete their sessions over 6 minutes rather than over days as that would rule out any chances of any blunder by anyone.

As though, she didn't get my point, she later asked us (seemingly in a sacarstic manner), if we wanted her to have my mum's next few sessions of chemotherapy to be done in 6 minutes. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT WAS THE PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT MADE?!?!

The chairman of the inquiry, A.Professor Tan, obviously sensed something wasn't right and stopped Dr Soh from further comments and told her to do what's best for the patient.

7 comments:

Miah said...

WTF seriously.

Ng Chun Kiat said...

Yeah :(

cl0udi3 said...

Hi, I think you had a typo? it's 16th today but you "had" an appointment on 18th Nov 2009?

Ng Chun Kiat said...

Thanks Cloudie :)

Yup it should be 11th instead of 18th. Apologies for my typo

Anonymous said...

goodness me! these doctors sound completely careless and callous. WTH!

Anonymous said...

Hey, dude, i highly suggest that you sue the Dr Soh and KKWCH for medical negligence and make sure that the docs and hospitals know the severity of talking nonsense.

in 6 mins? Wtf, man.

Ng Chun Kiat said...

My family is definitely considering. We have to also wait out for the hospital's response as the person-in-charge of providing the documents in black and white is OVERSEAS at the moment...

Gosh....