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A team of paramedics and paramedics rejected the mother's fears that her six-year-old son had meningitis a few hours before his death, today announced an investigation.
Georgie Hall, 38, a primary school teacher, said paramedic Graham Scott had even rolled his eyes and said his son, Oliver, was trying to "milk" his illness after he been examined by the general practitioner.
The paramedic also asked her if she had used Google to check her son's symptoms and said that he spent much of his time dealing with "overly anxious mothers."
Ollie Hall died at the age of six after a team of doctors and paramedics failed to notice his meningitis symptoms, opened an investigation in the Coroner's Court of Suffolk
Parents Bryan and Georgie, who are also teachers, both received pediatric training, but health professionals said their son was fine.
Ms. Hall, 38, a seven-month-old pregnant woman, told the Suffolk Coroner's Court that the doctors in charge of controlling her son had not properly looked at the rash on her body nor had taken proper note of his symptoms.
She said she repeatedly told health care professionals that she feared that he was suffering from meningitis, but they insisted that he did not do it and sent them home. in Halesworth.
Ms. Hall said she was slow to respond even as her son's condition worsened after she returned home because she had been mistakenly reassured by doctors and paramedics.
But she eventually became so worried that she brought him back to the Cutlers Hill surgery in Halesworth where a doctor finally began to suspect that he was suffering from meningitis and gave him a penicillin injection.
An ambulance was called, but Ms. Hall and her husband music teacher, Bryan, decided that it would be faster to drive him to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk .
After being sent home by the doctors, his condition worsened and he was taken to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where he died.
They transported Oliver, called Ollie, to the hospital around 11 pm on October 23, 2017, and he was immediately given oxygen and blood samples.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall learned that their son was suspected of meningitis and took him to the intensive care unit, while a team of health specialists was convened from London for the transfer to the Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge.
Before he could be transferred, he had a cardiac arrest shortly after midnight and had to be resuscitated three times, but his heart stopped again and he died shortly after 24 hours on October 24th.
The probable cause of his death was meningococcal sepsis, according to the judicial inquiry at the Suffolk Coroner's Court in Ipswich.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall sat together to investigate with a framed picture of their son and one of his tiger plush toys on a desk in front of them.
Ms. Hall, who also has a son, Charlie (five years old), said that Oliver was initially complaining of having a sore head and aching jaw on the evening of October 22, and she thought that he might have a toothache.
Ollie (right) first complained of having a headache and jaw, and the next morning he stated that he had a stomach ache and that It was very hot.
The next morning, he complained of having a stomach ache and she noticed that it was very hot so she gave him Calpol.
She called the surgery and was told that an appointment was not available until 3:50 pm, but during the morning, her condition worsened with the onset of surgery. A rash on his body and his breathing became faster and less deep.
Ms Hall said she called the NHS 111 support line to describe her son's symptoms. He was asked to go get a drink and squeeze it against his rash to see if his spots had disappeared.
When she revealed that the spots were still present and that her son did not like the light, the call manager called an ambulance.
Ms. Hall said she told paramedics, Mr. Scott and Oliver Denby, that she feared that her son's rash would be meningitis after they arrived home.
She described Mr. Scott as "quite abrupt" and claimed that he asked her if she was visiting the Internet to check her son's symptoms.
Ambulance Graham Scott even asked Ms. Hall if she had had Googling symptoms and said that Ollie (left) was "milking" her illness.
The two men told him that he could not act of meningitis because the edge of one of his spots disappeared when they performed a test by the glass.
Ms. Hall testified that Mr. Scott then began to "mimic" the "growling sound" that his son was producing.
When she asked him if he was a "child person", he answered "not really" and beckoned to his colleague saying "I leave him pediatrics".
They then decided to take Oliver to Operation Cutlers Hill with her around 2:30 pm so that she could be examined by doctors as a precaution, she said.
Oliver seemed "empty and confused" when he was seen by Dr. Lester Braganza, who discovered that his temperature was slightly above normal.
Another general practitioner, Dr. Robert Treen, has also been called to examine the biggest mark on Oliver's inner arm.
He decided that it looked like trauma due to trauma due to his injury, and that he also had a "normal child's virus", she said.
Ms Hall said they told them that she did not believe the mark was fading under the effect of the pressure exerted by the glass.
She said it was at that time that Mr. Scott had pointed out that "most of the time, they were treating overly anxious mothers."
Ms. Hall said that she continually raised Oliver's pajamas to report the rash in the rest of her body, but she added, "They did not seem to look."
Ms. Hall took a picture of her son and a tiger hug to the investigation
She added that Mr. Scott was not stopping the doctors and trying to persuade them that Oliver was "good".
Ms Hall said, "I was worried about meningitis and they assured me that he was well enough to go home. They rejected meningitis. It was said that everything was fine. It made me feel that I had to trust health professionals.
She recounted that while her son was coming out of the operation, he seemed to stumble on the trail, prompting Mr. Scott to say, "Oh, he will milk that."
After returning home, Ms. Hall told her mother that she had felt "pretty silly".
Her son continued to be lethargic as her temperature increased in the afternoon and she noticed that he was developing a more resembling rash, but she felt reassured by what the doctors had told him.
Finally, at 6:20 pm, she said that Oliver was so bad that she recalled the operation and was told to take him home.
Dr. Treen saw him again and gave him an injection of penicillin after stating that his rash had now become "typical" of meningitis.
Mr. Hall told the investigation that both he and his wife had received pediatric training and had come across the fact that Oliver had been sick "in a way that" he said. he had never been sick before. "
He added, "We both suspected meningitis and Georgie mentioned this as a potential diagnosis.
"We were made to feel that we were too sensitive parents who did not know what we were talking about."
Mr. Hall described Mr. Scott's actions of copying his son's grunts "to mimic his distress" as "very unprofessional".
He added: "He asked rather sarcastically if Georgie had observed Oliver's symptoms."
Mr. Hall said that he also felt reassured when doctors and paramedics insisted that Oliver not be afflicted with meningitis.
Professor Nigel Klein, Professor of Infectious Diseases at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, said he thought Oliver could have survived if he had been treated sooner.
He added that even though he had been treated until 23 o'clock on October 23, the day of his examination by the doctors, he would have always lived, even though he might have had scars or loss of fingers or toes
But he added that Oliver's death would have been "inevitable" if he had not been treated around 3:30 pm.
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