Shropshire Star, “Tragic mother refused blood”

Shropshire Star, “Tragic mother refused blood”

7 April 2008 · Shropshire Star

“It is my view if she had received a transfusion the probability is very strongly in favour of the fact she would have survived.”

Consultant pathologist Dr Archibald Malcolm to coroner John Ellery; post-mortem haemoglobin 2.2 g/dL against about 14 in a healthy woman; Mrs Gough, 22, of Dawley, Telford, had signed an 'advance directive' refusing blood; died 25 Oct 2007 at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. The newspaper printed the haemoglobin figure as '2.2 milligrammes in 100 millilitres'; the site reports it as 2.2 (g/dL) without endorsing the unit as printed.

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