Am I just being over sensitive or do I have a reason to be feeling bloody angry.
My brother and I went to read Dad's medical certificate this morning prior to his funeral tomorrow. As I was reading through there was a question about wether a post mortem had been carried out, it was ticked yes and also if they had the notes from it, also ticked yes.
This being the first we'd heard about a post mortem I was devestated as my instruction to the funeral director was that I did'nt want Dad messed about with, embalmed etc. So to hear that a p/m had been carried out without us knowing was heartbreaking on top of the grief that we're already going through.
After several phone calls to funeral directors, hospital, and a visit to the hospital we discovered that Dad had not had a p/m.
We met with the two Doctors that had signed dads certificate and the female doctor who filled in the particular part of the form was very apologetic. Sorry, not accepted. They are supposed to be proffessional people filling in a legal document so to get something like that wrong, I feel is not acceptable. One of the other questions on the form was 'how long had they been treating the patient' well she put 19 days, wrong again as Dad had only been in hospital for 10 days.
These doctors make a fortune out of filling in these forms, over £70 each, so I think that the least they can do is make sure they have the correct information in front of them. I asked her if she'd had Dads notes at the time to which she said that she had, so i don't understand where the error could have occured.
Today of all days we could have done without the stress, upset and running around.
Thank you, rant over xx
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I really do not know what to say except to offer support and love to you and your family. x x
Hi Sarah, sorry to hear of the loss of your dad. I can understand your anger towards the 'professionals'! Like you say they are trained to do this sort of thing and to much such mistakes is unforgiveable. I suppose you can be thankful that your wishes were actually adhered to and no post mortem was done.
Your sense of anger will be heightened right now, which can only make the whole situation even more unbearable.
I wish you all the very best for the future. Love, Christine xx
For your replies to my earlier rant. The main thing is that Dad 'did not' have a post mortem. For that i'm thankful. However we are lodging an official complaint with the hospital as these mistakes can not be allowed to happen.
