Valerie Bobbett says the health-care system failed her brother, possibly costing him his life. | SaltWire
James Hayes and his sister Valerie Bobbett in happier times. Hayes died on Oct. 25 of bowel necrosis, two weeks after Bobbett says a doctor at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital told him it was only a virus, prescribing him Gravol. Contributed - ccfailed her brother, possibly costing him his life.by ambulance complaining of excruciating abdominal pain. Bobbett, who lives nearby, rushed to be with him, explaining the 57-year-old was “very nervous of hospitals.
At one point he even laid on the floor, telling his sister he thought the coolness would help ease his suffering, but a worker came out and lifted him back into his seat. “So the doctor comes in again, he looks at him and he says ‘Everything is OK with your bloodwork and everything is OK with your X-ray,’ and my brother looks at him and says ‘That can’t be right; it feels like my stomach is being ripped all apart on the inside.’ The doctor said ‘Oh that’s just sore from coughing.’ I said, ‘Wait a minute — are you going to give him anything for pain? The boy is in pain,’ and the doctor said ‘He doesn’t need anything for pain because it’s only a virus.
This time, she said, the attending physician treated her brother with the care and attention she believed he should have received the first time he went to the hospital.Unfortunately, the results were far more serious. Hayes was transported to hospital in Halifax where an angiogram confirmed the dire diagnosis. He underwent surgery but there was nothing doctors could do to save his life. Bobbett received the phone call at 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 25, minutes before her brother died.Since then, Bobbett said she’s been feeling a mix of grief, guilt and anger.
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