A medical misdiagnosis led to the death of a “kind-hearted” young dad.
Josh Warner, 25, died from a brain tumor after doctors misdiagnosed it as appendicitis.
After two weeks of suffering headaches and being sick, Warner went to the hospital for a CT scan.
The doctors told him he had appendicitis — despite having no stomach pain — and admitted him into surgery to have his appendix removed.
A few hours after being home post-surgery, the self-employed carpenter still felt sick and was re-admitted to the hospital where the doctors gave him another CT scan.
This time, the scan showed an anomaly on his brain, but the doctors said it was a computer error and released him again.
The young father continued on with back-and-forth trips to the hospital and was turned away over and over.
But when Warner collapsed in his grandparents’ bathroom, he was rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the UK for another scan — which showed the same results as the previous scan from Darent Valley Hospital.
Less than 24 hours later, the doctors at Queen Elizabeth Hospital told him that he had a large brain tumor that spread from the right side of his brain to the back and brain stem, and he was moved to the oncology ward.
Warner had a biopsy on September 5 and was diagnosed with midline glioma, a highly aggressive brain cancer with an average life expectancy of less than one year, according to The Brain Tumour Charity.
Doctors gave Warner three months to live, but he died just 12 days after the diagnosis at Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice.
“Josh was fun, he loved making people laugh. He was a prankster, and had a beautiful soul and a really kind heart and I think that was why most people fell in love with him. He touched people’s hearts,” Warner’s mom, Eve Pateman, told SWNS, adding that he was an amazing dad, brother and son.
“He wanted to share his story as he did not want anyone else to not be believed and he wanted to highlight the symptoms of a brain tumor,” Pateman said.
“He was so very brave, I cannot quantify how brave he was through all of this. He never moaned. I think I would be feeling sorry for myself, but he never once did that.”
A crowdfunding page raised about $24,500 to put Warner through treatment, which will now be put into a fund for his four-year-old son, Andrew.
“It was Joshua’s wish for the money raised to go into a trust fund for his son. It is a really beautiful legacy he has been able to leave him,” Pateman said. “He loved his son so very much and it is heart breaking to see Andrew asking where his dad is.”
Pateman shared that Warner quickly began to work with brain tumor research because he didn’t want anyone else to go through the same troubles as him. “He just wanted to give even during his hardest time,” she said.
Even though Pateman said there is “no question” about the cause of Warner’s death, a medical examiner said a report is being sent to the coroner’s office “to see if there were any missed opportunities.”
The family is in the process of filing a complaint against the hospital that repeatedly turned Warner away, and a spokesperson for Darent Valley Hospital and Gravesham NHS Trust said the case was being examined.
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Was he forced to get any of the covid jans, especially the boosters over the past 3 years?
Covid vaccine does not cause brain cancer, if it did there would be million of cases of brain cancer. Covid vaccine saved many lives.
This is very similar to the UK medical news that sometimes makes it to my computer. It is really a bad medical system when patients arrive for care and are told that a headache is appendicitis.
This is the third story of misdiagnosis in the UK medical system.
People seriously ill, given the wrong treatment, or given paracetamol and sent home – to die shortly after. Heartbreaking.
Sorry – thirds story in TWO WEEKS
Diagnosed appendicitis and it’s a brain tumor? How in the ?? Where in the world did they take the cat scan of? And didn’t they listen to where his pain was?
I have brain cancer, and I was staggering into walls and furniture on my right side from the brain tumor, pressing on an area of my brain that controlled the right side of my body.
I was being told by the doctors at the number for hospital in the country that it was my hip and my hip needed to be replaced. I had a pseudoaneurysm when the tumor tore my artery in my parasagittal region of my brain, and after genetic testing it, it was discovered as being atypical and I had to have graduated stereotactic radiation after a craniotomy I have been left with multiple damages as a result of the misdiagnosis and people failing to take my medical situation seriously .
My medical records were tampered with and erroneous information inserted in an effort to victim blame and discredit me. The records had to be locked down. The defamation has nearly led to my death on numerous occasions.
I called my neurosurgeon’s office and the local hospital and reported that I was having trouble finding words and I didn’t think that I was going to be okay waiting for 4 more days and I was told that I would be fine and they would see me in 4 days. I collapsed from a seizure in the shower and was sent to the wrong hospital where I was denied transfer to my hospital for my scheduled testing and appointments and held against my will for 22 days, denied a judge and denied treatment for the injuries that I sustained when I was trapped in my shower, drowning and hypothermic.
My medical care has been compromised since then and I was hospitalized with double bacterial antibiotic resistant pneumonia with IV fluid volume overload. The local hospital nearly drowned me alive. My 02 SAT rates were only 77-80%
I had to call my pharmacy from the ICU because my orders from this local hospital were to reduce my medication despite the acute pain of my lungs filling with fluid. I’m not the same since then. The doctor that I had denied me medication for the infection so I had to fight for my life again.
I think I need a malpractice attorney. I don’t want the cancer to spread and I suffered additional injury to my brain when I collapsed in my home from the lack of oxygen and hit my head hard. I never should have had to go through that.
So sorry you are going through this 🙁