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GPs face rap over tragic teen's death.


Byline: CHARLES LAVERY

TWO GPs accused of failing to carry out simple checks on a teenager who died of organ failure face a General Medical Council hearing this week.

Doctors Agnes Wallace, 60, and James Miller James Miller may refer to any of the following individuals:
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, 48, allegedly failed to check 15-year-old Anton White's pulse or listen to his heart after he complained of breathlessness at Clydebank Health Centre.

By the time a third doctor saw him and admitted him to hospital, he was vomiting vomiting, ejection of food and other matter from the stomach through the mouth, often preceded by nausea. The process is initiated by stimulation of the vomiting center of the brain by nerve impulses from the gastrointestinal tract or other part of the body.  blood and had been given beta-blockers, medicine for an ulcer and a referral to a psychiatrist for panic attacks.

The two GPs were ordered to apologise to his family following his death in Yorkhill Hospital two years ago. On Tuesday, they face a GMC GMC

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Publication:Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:May 17, 2009
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