UK PLEASE SHARE: IF YOU HAVE THE CAPACITY TO SUE FOR MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE PLEASE CONTACT TIME ARNOTT OF IRWIN MITCHELL NO WIN-NO FEE

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Like most ME patients what I face is systemic. Refusal to acknowledge illness, refer onwards and investigate into symptoms and refusal to accommodate disabilities. The harm is a life wasted buts its just not bombastic like a death and I think its the average ME patient experience, being treated like a mentally ill person instead of a human being with an awful disease. I have no idea how they intend to litigate that.
 
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The defence would say we have a disease with no test, and no acceptable effective proven treatment.
 
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ruben

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What about further down the line when we might well be able to prove it's a disease?
 
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DonPepe said:
On what grounds would people be suing?
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Well what I know with this condition is even going on holiday was a struggle. I have been around Europe but it isn't easy. I'm sure if a healthy person booked up a holiday in the winter months to go away in the summer, but in the meantime they developed ME/CFS they would almost certainly not go on that holiday. But if I'd have waited and waited to be fully well over the years I'd never have gone anywhere. So we ARE ill but told we must work. Is this grounds for suing?. I don't have a clue.
 
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ruben said:
What about further down the line when we might well be able to prove it's a disease?
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If there is no set way to treat a disease or the disease is not yet discovered what can you sue for?

If someone has failed to apply the correct medical process and damage can be proved for that failure then perhaps it could be considered. But at this time we're up ship creek without a paddle
 
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We don't need to worry about all of that now - that's for the lawyers to argue about. And apparently there is a law firm which is willing to take on a lawsuit involving medical negligence related to ME and are looking for clients. I'm wondering if they're thinking of a class action, or individual plaintiffs.

I think the simple question is if you believe you are a victim of medical negligence related to ME in the UK, and are interested in pursuing a legal remedy, then contact the law firm named above. It looks like a contingency fee case - "no win/no fee" - if they're successful, they would get a percentage of any settlement or damages paid. And it would be up to the lawyers to prove their case, or not - but it wouldn't cost you anything to try.

Although I do have a question about costs involved - depositions etc - I'd want to know how those get paid if they lose the case.

Who knows - if by some miracle they were successful, it might light a fire under the medical establishment to try to avoid getting sued again - i.e., to actually learn about ME.
 
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Depression also has no test and is is diagnosed based on what patient says.

If it says anything is that medical authorities have been neglectful about ME/CFS since decades and unwilling to diagnose it and help patients.

A hospital is obliged to find a way to get food into the body if a patient can't eat on their own. Hospital's responsibility is to keep patients alive. These doctors should go to prison and lose their licence for life. The whole thing is ridiculous that we even think if there's a case here.
 
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Mary said:
Actually I think it's pretty impressive that a law firm is willing to take on such a case - they must think there is some basis for winning.
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Here is the email I’ve sent…..

Hello


I have had severe ME and Hemochromotosis for 45 years. I am now 57, I am bedridden and only leave home to visit hospital for venesections.

I was only diagnosed with Hemochromotosis a couple of years ago after insisting the doctor carry out the appropriate test.

I have been left to rot by the medical profession, and was even refused appointments at Liverpool’s NHS ME clinic because they said I was too severely affected and that there was nothing they could do for me.

It sounds quite unbelievable but I can assure you, it’s all totally true. My doctor won’t even visit me and won’t even arrange for my bloods to be taken at home, ( I’ve been too ill to go to hospital for essential venesections ) so I have to attend hospital ( which always sets me further back ) and then spend all of my time ( months to years ) trying to recover from the trips too and from hospital.

Just thought I’d let you know
 
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