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Burnt toe led to leg amputation
Press Association
Tuesday July 18, 2006
A hospital yesterday apologised for a series of blunders that resulted in a patient being treated for a burnt toe having his leg amputated.
Derek Atkinson, 56, who has diabetes, burned his big toe on a hot-water bottle in 2001. He said he had seen a consultant at Bishop Auckland general hospital in Co Durham five times for treatment. After two weeks the former teacher was in so much pain that he called his GP, who diagnosed gangrene. The big toe on his left foot was removed and days later his left leg was amputated below the knee.
Mr Atkinson told the Northern Echo: 'I saw the consultant five times but all he seemed to do was take swabs, give me antibiotics, bandage it and rebandage it.'
A report from the independent parliamentary and health service ombudsman criticised the care Mr Atkinson received. A spokesman for the Co Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS trust said: 'We have received the ombudsman's report and have written to Mr Atkinson to apologise. We have introduced new guidelines for the management of diabetic patients with foot problems in our accident and emergency departments.
'We believe that these greatly reduce the chance of a similar problem occurring.'
 
  walkin on 2006-07-24
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I was appalled to read the report of a diabetic patient whose leg was amputated as a result of gangrene following the lack of proper treatment. I thought that it was only in places like Sri Lanka that similar cases are reported but it is a matter of great concern to read of the callous manner which is adopted even by consultants in major hospitals in the UK. The instance I referred to was the case of a woman who entered hospital to have a leg amputated which was found necessary due to some complications also due to diabetes. It was a national surprise to read that the poor woman's good leg was amputated instead and her damaged knee was amputated shortly after. She was sent back home with only a wheel chair that someone had donated to her. No compensation was paid to her and the surgeon responsible for the amputation was only given a reprimand and transferred to another hospital.

I had a similar instance of treating a Type I Diabetic in January 2005 who was also a retired qualified doctor who had a lesion on his toe that was not healing for some months. I used to meet him every month at a Board meeting and often inquired as to the reason why he was only dressing the wound but was not doing something positive about curing it. I then offered to give him Arnica 30c and he took it very reluctantly as if it were some form of poison and the day after he rang me up very excited and informed me that for the first time he discovered that his BS level had come down to normal. I informed him that this was perhaps due to the Arnica, as this was the first case that I had observed this phenomenon. It was unfortunate that he did not continue with the Arnica as he could not rationalize how just 2 little pellets could have made his BS level to drop when he was unable to maintain it even with the Insulin that he was injecting 5 times daily. He died a few months ago of kidney failure perhaps due to the increasing doses of Insulin that he was using.

It was after treating this patient that I discovered for the first time that Arnica, my favourite remedy was also effective in the treatment of Diabetes and in combination with Cinnamon powder has enabled many Type II Diabetics to replace the drugs they were using with this combined therapy.
 
Joe De Livera last decade

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