Unforgivable Medical Error: 17-year-old girl was diagnosed with arthritis and died of cancer

A 17 year old girl he died this saturday as a result of a terminal cancer, only a few weeks after the doctors had confirmed that he had a tumor in his spine. Until then, he had been told that what he had suffered it was arthritis.

The case was in Scotland and the protagonist of the sad story is Alix Cbadidy. It was his own mother who made him known the news of his death, across the page GoFundMe in which they collected donations to deal with a stem cell treatment that they hoped to help the teenager.

They had collected 17,000 books that will eventually be used for the wake of Cbadidy and what will remain donated for charity events UK.

"We would like to thank you all for your incredible donations and messages. our warrior died Saturday in the morning and now he is at peace, "wrote the girl's family on this site dedicated to economic contributions.

Alix's mother revealed that the teenager He started crying and said, "I do not want to die." His words were heard after they informed him that his cancer was incurable. The newspaper The mirror She explained that Caron praised her daughter's strength and criticized the medical staff for not having diagnosed her tumor before.

The girl visited her family doctor for the first time in October 2018, after her fingers became numb. However, specialists advised him to take painkillers, and after further visits to the clinic, he misdiagnosed

Caron, 39, said the doctors were indifferent when he took Alix to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and insisted he waited for a scheduled shift. examine your "arthritis" after Christmas

Mom remembered that a simple ten-minute reflex test at Nuffield House sufficed for a neurologist to confirm that Alix was not suffering from arthritis and that she was being transported to the MRI .

Three hours after the examination, doctors at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital informed the teenager that they had found a tumor in the spinal cord. He had to undergo a five-hour operation so that a surgeon would undergo a biopsy of the tissue around his spine.

He remained in the postoperative care unit for eight weeks, when neurologists began to speculate about the possibility of a tumor.

Finally, on April 25, Alix underwent another biopsy and the surgeon confirmed that she had a tCancerous tumor in the spinal cord. The next day, it was told to the teenager that it was incurable.