A key clinician treating ‘one of the most knowledgeable and best doctors that the UK had’ feared his patient was ‘dying’ as the medical team scrambled to investigate what was wrong with him.
The inquest into Professor Patel’s premature death at just 43 began at Manchester Coroner’s Court yesterday . Dr Simon Watts, a haematologist who treated Prof Patel, told the hearing that while he had heard of HLH, he had never previously treated anyone with the condition. “I fear he’s dying and we should discuss whether there might be an underlying haematological disorder,” said Dr Watts in an email to his colleagues during the treatment of Prof Patel at the end of August.
The procedure perforated his body and Prof Patel’s lungs started filling up with blood. Having previously had a more than 75 per cent chance of survival, the likelihood of Prof Patel living fell to just one to 10 per cent, his wife told the court. While being questioned by the family’s barrister, Darragh Coffey, Dr Simon Watts accepted there was no physical record of the national panel making decisions on Prof Patel’s care being informed of the abnormal blood clotting.
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