Impact of computed tomography scan on management and waiting times for perianal abscess diagnosis
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25-year-old father dies from brain tumor after doctors misdiagnose appendicitis and dismiss ‘abnormalities’ in brain scan as ‘computer error’
A young father died of a brain tumor that doctors mistakenly diagnosed as appendicitis, his heartbroken family has claimed. Joshua Warner, 25, from south-east London, went to hospital in June after suffering headaches and feeling unwell for two weeks. Doctors performed a CT scan on the carpenter and determined that he had appendicitis, before undergoing […]