Jade Goody's doctor has blamed "incompetent and negligent" staff at UK's National Health Services (NHS) for the reality TV star's death.
Ann Coxon, Harley Street consultant and former NHS doctor, blasted medics who, she said, failed to notice the Big Brother celebrity's tumour, even when it was the "size of a tangerine", which led to the 27-year-old's death from cervical cancer on Mother's Day last year.
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"But Jade didn't know that. She'd had abnormal smear tests since she was 16 so by the time she was 27 it didn't worry her much, because she didn't really know what it meant. It had never been properly explained to her.
"After she was diagnosed, she said to me, in that typically Jade way, 'I'm not daft. If I'd known it was to do with cancer, I'd have been checked out every three months'. Jade realised she had been let down. She simply said, 'Sometimes people make mistakes'.
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The commission has ordered the doctor to pay Rs 2.5 lakh compensation for not recording provisional diagnosis before starting off a patient on treatment.
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Dr Coxon also said: "Jade's story must never be forgotten. She need not have died if the medical profession had got their act together in time."
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