The doctor stated yesterday during the session in The Hague that the hospital then asked a second opinion at the Radboudumc. There the committee ruled that there was a calamity.
The relatives dragged four practitioners and a nurse last September for the Regional Disciplinary Court. According to son Jeroen, who works in first -line care, his father also had complaints that resembled blood poisoning, a lung infection and a delirium in addition to a crowded stomach. However, that has never been carefully investigated, he says.
Of the four doctors, two received one warning from the disciplinary court. The now retired nurse received a reprimand because she did not know the protocols.
‘Complaint bumps into my chest’
Central to this appeal is the so -called second disciplinary standard. He states that a doctor can also be held responsible for disciplinary, without a direct treatment relationship. For example, in a manager, administrative or advisory role, if that acting has had an impact on the quality of care.
“The case is important for all my colleagues throughout the country. As a committee, we do not blame doctors individually, but we look at what can be systematically better,” the doctor said during the session.
After the death of René, the EWS protocol in the hospital has improved, with which vital functions are checked to signal deterioration early, she continues. “It encounters me that the indictment was partially declared well -founded in the previous session, and we were very seriously charged.” The lawyer argued that her client acted as chairman of a committee, and was not involved in René’s treatment as a treating physician.
Two different caps
According to Jeroen, that is precisely the problem: the doctor wore two different caps. “After his death we had a conversation with her, in which she made herself known as a doctor.” He continues: “In it she gave us incorrect information and masked mistakes. That is not an abstract acting – that immediately touches on how we were informed about the death of our father”.
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