In the end of 2019, a Stockholm doctor performed a colonoscopy, intestinal examination, on a patient. Changes in the intestine were detected, but the examination was interrupted, according to the doctor due to "unprepared intestine".
The routine is in such a situation to book a new examination immediately. Despite this, it took half a year before a new examination was made. Then, spread intestinal cancer was detected.
The Health and Social Care Inspectorate (Ivo) is now criticizing the doctor for the delayed cancer diagnosis, writes Nacka Värmdö Posten. The doctor is criticized for not having taken samples despite changes being detected. According to the chief physician whom Ivo hired for assessment, sampling should have been done at the first examination.
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