Doctors did not fixate on a grandmother’s use of Mounjaro weight-loss medication before her death, an inquest heard.
The family of 73-year-old Caroline Savage voiced concerns that clinicians too readily attributed her symptoms to side effects of the drug before her death in 2024.
But Norfolk area coroner Yvonne Blake said medics had considered other possibilities too, including pancreatitis or an aortic aneurysm.
Blake added: “It’s not clear to me from the evidence that the doctors were fixated with Mounjaro.”
She noted that the mother-of-three “had an increasing dose [of Mounjaro], but hadn’t yet given herself the increasing dose”.
“I don’t think there was an overshadowing by doctors,” Blake said.
Mounjaro was not mentioned in the coroner’s narrative conclusion, which found Savage died near Harleston of faecal peritonitis due to perforated sigmoid diverticular disease.
This is where faecal matter leaks into the abdominal cavity due to a perforation of the intestines.