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A 34-year-old mother who suffered a broken neck in a riding accident, only for doctors to take two months to diagnose it, has said that she will not make a no win, no fee claim for delayed diagnosis.
Amazingly, the Essex woman, an amateur show jumper, walked around for two months with a broken neck, not realising that any knock, jolt or sudden impact could have paralysed or even killed her.
The 34-year-old told the Daily Mail, "He [the A&E doctor] said I'd compounded my spine and would be in pain for three or four days and then I would start to feel better. He took me out of a head block and neck brace and said if I couldn't look left and right he would refer me to an orthopaedic consultant.
"I managed to look left and right and I was discharged at 12.30 am after seven hours in traction.
"I explained to him at the time that I heard a crack and pointed out where - above my shoulders at the base of my neck, but he didn't pick it up in the x-ray."
It was only the intervention of a physiotherapist friend, who insisted that the woman demand an MRI scan, that eventually led to a correct diagnosis.
However, the woman indicated she will not be making a no win, no fee claim over the incident. "I'm not looking for any sort of financial gain for this or compensation. I want the system to be changed. I don't want this to happen again because it could have been much worse."
The woman is not alone in receiving a potentially fatal delayed diagnosis, with many no win, no fee claims being made for similar incidents each year.
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