Difficulty dressing, washing alone and total cessation of activity: this is the daily life of Milan Jovicic, 70 years old, 80% disabled after a stroke in 2016. A stroke that “could have been avoided if the doctor [l’avait] heard,” he explains to Parisian.
The former employee of Farébersviller, in Moselle, considers that his general practitioner “did not know how to react and adapt emergency care”, while Milan would have expressed his health concerns several times in the doctor’s office.
Before his stroke, the pensioner already complained of tingling, paralysis of the arm and face, or even loss of sensation on the left side of his body. Regular clinical signs, written the parisian.
A series of gaps
At the end of April, his doctor was sanctioned with a three-month disqualification from practicing by the Moselle doctors’ order, applicable since July. A decision that the septuagenarian considers insufficient in the face of the warning signs of his stroke. Milan appealed as well.
In the disciplinary chamber, the doctors’ order determined that the deficiencies in Milan’s follow-up “greatly reduced Mr. Jovicic’s treatment possibilities that would have made it possible with a very high probability to avoid the occurrence of a stroke on 14 February 2016”. For his part, the doctor’s lawyer stressed “a complex chain of events” as well as the fact that the patient was sent “to specialists.”
The retiree had been referred to an otolaryngologist in February 2015, a year before his stroke, when he was already complaining of various symptoms such as loss of balance and feeling dizzy.
“I am condemned to live prisoner of my body”
the parisian recounts the portrait of a previously hyperactive man. Milan can no longer leave their homes and has lost much of its autonomy.
“I am condemned to live as a prisoner of my body. My life has turned upside down, it no longer has the same flavor and nothing will allow me to find it again, ”he confided to the newspaper.
The sanction dictated by the doctors’ order, therefore, is not serious enough according to Milan, which must continue to live with almost no autonomy. From now on, the retiree has no choice but to depend on his wife and children, who support him on a daily basis.
Source: BFM TV
