A 25-year-old man in the UK tragically died from a brain tumour after the doctors misdiagnosed him, saying it was appendicitis. According to the New York Post, Josh Warner, a self-employed carpenter in the UK, and a young father, visited Darent Valley Hospital in June this year after suffering headaches and nausea. After a CT scan was conducted at the hospital, doctors initially diagnosed him with appendicitis, despite the absence of any abdominal pain. He was admitted into surgery to have his appendix removed.
Just hours after coming home, he was readmitted to the hospital, as he was still feeling sick. Another CT scan was conducted which revealed an anomaly in his brain. However, the doctors attributed it to a mere computer error and discharged him again. The doctors claimed that the anomaly occurred due to ”an issue with the scan machine.”
Mr Warner continued on with back-and-forth trips to the hospital, seeking answers for his pain, but was repeatedly turned away. Then on one day, when he suddenly collapsed on the floor of his grandparents’ bathroom, he was rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for another CT scan.
The results matched with those from Darent Valley Hospital, confirming a large brain tumour that had spread from the right side of his brain to the back and brain stem.
A biopsy was done on September 5 and Mr Warner 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 him only three months to live, but he died just 12 days after the diagnosis on September 17, at the Greenwich and Bexley Community Hospice.
