The Daily Mail Reporter
PLYMOUTH, U.K. — A retired teacher died of a burst stomach ulcer after a paramedic told her to ‘stop being such a drama queen’ and failed to take her to a hospital, an inquest heard yesterday.
Mother-of-three Eileen Ellis-Whitfield, 63, died just hours after an ambulance was called to her home when she fell seriously ill with chronic stomach pains.
She had been seen at a hospital the day before but a junior doctor had diagnosed her condition as constipation and sent her home with laxatives, an inquest heard.
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