A baby suffered catastrophic brain
damage after a junior doctor failed to spot she had meningitis and lied
to her parents that he had sought a second opinion from a consultant, a
court heard yesterday.Dr Halenahalli Vijayakumar told Mark and Diane Pierce their daughter Kate was merely suffering from viral tonsillitis.
But
when they requested a second opinion, he disappeared for 45 minutes
before returning and, they say, informing them that his ‘boss’ agreed
with his diagnosis.But the junior hospital doctor had not sought the second opinion of a senior doctor and had simply lied to the couple, it is alleged.
Nine-month-old Kate was wrongly sent home, but hours later she was taken back to the same hospital where she was correctly diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis. More Read
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