#097. When someone dies in hospital there's the loss of a patient, but there's also the grief of the family, so how does dealing with that grief differ, depending which side you're on?

This is The Silent Why, a podcast on a mission to open up conversations around grief, to see if hope can be found in 101 different types of loss.

Loss #49 of 101: Loss in an Emergency Department

In this episode, you'll meet two guests, each telling their side of the story about the death of a patient after emergency surgery.

Our first guest is Catherine Fowler, the daughter of Tim Fleming, who died of an aortic dissection in 2015 after being admitted to the Emergency Department in Dublin (where he was visiting on a work trip).

We’re also joined by John Cronin, a consultant in Emergency Medicine, who was on duty the day Tim was admitted, and aware of colleagues’ attempts to diagnose his condition.

However, our guests' paths didn't cross the day Tim died, they met much later as they both searched for answers about how aortic dissection is diagnosed and treated.

Seventy adults, of all ages, every week in the UK & Ireland, suffer an aortic dissection (when the aorta, the major artery in the body that carries blood from the heart, starts to tear). And sadly, only around half of these people survive.
 
What Catherine, John, and many others at The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust have been working on since Tim's death is something we should all be thankful for, because it has massively changed the approach to diagnosing aortic dissection.

For more on The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust, visit:
https://aorticdissectioncharitabletrust.org/
https://www.facebook.com/AorticDissectCT
https://www.instagram.com/aorticdissectct
https://twitter.com/AorticDissectCT
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-aortic-dissection-charitable-trust/

Sasha Bates episode mentioned: Loss 23/101:
https://www.thesilentwhy.com/podcast/episode/7bb3198e/loss-23101-loss-of-a-husband-and-best-friend-sasha-bates

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