Dear Doctor....
My husband and I lost our daughter, Cheryl on January 12, this year. She was diagnosed with bullous emphysema, asthma and hypoxia. Her only medication was Spireva. She was 60 years old and could hardly breathe and was not given a nebulizer or oxygen. Her doctor refused to sign her death certificate because he hadn't seen her since October. I plan to turn him in to the American Medical Assn because I feel this was malpractice.
How would you have treated this patient. Would you have given her oxygen?
June , Cheryl's mother