perforated bowel

like i said i only know what iv read and heard , about this , but it seems to me that if they had scaned her straight away they might have had time to do a repair .as she just got worse as the days went on it seems to me that  a scan  should have been sooner rather than later giving her a better chance . 

you can find loads of stuff on the net about allsorts of medical problems , try putting in a search and read up on it . see what it says the early symptoms are  ,  and how long do you have to put it right .at least your be able to come to terms with it .one way or the other . you wont get any honesty from the hospital they all close ranks in cases like this.

my sisterinlaw nearly died after being told her pain was all inher head and being discharged .luckly she collasped on her way out of the hospital , it turned out she had ganagreen of the stomach after her appendix ruptured .if she had gone home she would have made it back in time she would have died at 27 .

ths kind of condition should not have been missed there are certain signs that would have showed up .  get some  grief cancelling hun no matter what the right or wrongs of your mothers case it was most certainly not your fault.

2) Make a formal complaint in writing to the hospital.  You will need to go through the hospital's own internal (and often useless) complaints department before you will then be able to take the matter onto, say, the Health Ombudsman, if you want to.

3) Identify the doctor who first saw your mother and whose responsibility it should have been to send her for a scan.  Waiting 4 days seems ridiculous in these circumstances - and I don't claim to know the specific facts of your mother's case.  It just seems rather unreasonable.  If that doctor really did act in a 'grossly negligent' way by not ordering a scan, then there may even be criminal legal implications involved, although that is rare. 

4) In any event, even if the individual doctor/doctors aren't criminally negligent, you may want to consider referring them to their own professional body, which is the G.M.C. (General Medical Council).  Again, often thought of as another 'toothless tiger', but worth complaining to, if the doctor did not act responsibly.  He/she will then have to justify themselves and their actions. 

Do try and speak to a solicitor about this case, who should be able to give an objective analysis (it's just not in their interests to pursue a case that isn't going to go anywhere).  If you do get them to take it on, at least you will then have a professional on your side to hopefully counter the brick walls that I suspect that you will encounter from the Health Service.