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aged 21, is now undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy which will leave her unable to have any more children.
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Here is a classic example of the medical system protecting its own system, no matter what the consequences for the patient may be. Obviously in this case protection of the system far outweighed the importance of protection of the patient’s life.
While it is commendable and necessary to have guidelines to protect from system abuse, it makes you wonder what role common sense plays in the practice of medical diagnosis today. Doctors are trained well to make diagnoses and understand presenting symptoms. Yet simply because of a patient’s age they are in this case not permitted to carry out the proper diagnoses they are trained to practice.
In the case reported here a young mother suffered in pain with cervical cancer for six months before she was diagnosed - because doctors said she was too young to have a smear test. Now aged 21 she is now undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy which will leave her unable to have any more children.
As a community we need to question whether this is the type of medical system we really want.