Vanessa Feltz Claims Doctors Told Mum She Was ‘Attention Seeking’ Before Dying Of Cancer

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00:00 I mean it's very difficult this one because I think it's I should just say what happened with

00:04 my own mother. My mother you know was suddenly getting the most tremendous abdominal pain but

00:10 only sporadically and only sometimes and very unpredictably but it was incredibly painful when

00:14 it happened and she went from doctor to doctor to doctor specialist to specialist and they all

00:19 pretty much did that patter on the head thing say you know are you are you neurotic are you looking

00:24 for attention or are you is it the menopause and it turned out to be endometrial cancer and she

00:30 died at the age of 57 she died of it it had spread so far that they couldn't really do anything much

00:35 about it and she wasn't definitely was neither heard nor listened to she really really wasn't so

00:40 I also know though that if a doctor says I'll run along it's nothing much you know go to a picnic

00:46 eat a bit more you'll be fine you're just a bit dizzy have a drink of water there's a part of you

00:50 as the patient that's relieved because obviously you don't want to have anything serious so when

00:54 the doctor says it's nothing to worry about don't worry your little head about it or your pretty

00:57 little head about it you just think okay good don't you and as her family we and to some extent

01:02 thought oh they say it's nothing serious good rather than push harder push harder try and find

01:08 out what it is it must be something when you're told by someone senior in the medical establishment

01:12 you know don't worry about it you're fine you know just just you know drink some water have a

01:16 have a tranquilizer you'll be great have a bubble bath you think well thank god for that you know

01:21 the the urge to push further is is not that great

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