As he became more unwell overnight, staff said he could be having a stroke but there was a wait of more than seven hours for a doctor.<\/p>\n
Julia said: “What is concerning is that even though the hospital staff were discussing Tom as a potential stroke patient, he was still left on the corridor for 36 hours.”<\/p>\n
She added that workers apologised for delays and said a new computer system was being introduced that day.<\/p>\n
Her husband was only treated with paracetamol and fluids overnight.<\/p>\n
Medics said he need an MRI scan but they could only take place on week days.<\/p>\n
Julia said she asked if he could be taken to the neurology department at the Royal Stoke University Hospital, but was told it was full.<\/p>\n
The doctor prescribed antibiotics for a suspected infection, while he was in the corridor bed.<\/p>\n
“The A&E department was overwhelmed,” Julia said, “and I believe Tom was failed by the system.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he became more unwell overnight, staff said he could be having a stroke but there was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-528510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}