As an experienced GP, Uday Pathak had good reason to trust his instincts and knowledge when his wife became ill.
The 62-year-old suspected she had cancer and urged medics to carry out an immediate full body scan. Tragically, they delayed for seven months and 54-year-old Pradnya later died of the disease.
Today, after an inquest heard the grandmother may have recovered if diagnosed sooner, Dr Pathak accused doctors of ‘incompetence’.
Dr Uday Pathak claimed his wife could have survived Hodgkin's lymphoma if doctors had listened to his pleas for a full body scan seven months before she died
The GP of 27 years said they should have listened to him and found the Hodgkin’s lymphoma earlier.
‘The hospital totally mismanaged her care and were totally negligent,’ he said. ‘If something like this can happen to me, what is happening for everyone else? I believe we lost eight months through clinical incompetence.’
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