Maeve Boothby O’Neill, 27, was admitted to Royal Devon and Exeter hospital before her death in 2021
Devon woman with ME asked GP to help her ‘get enough food to live’, inquest hearsMon 22 Jul 2024 16.55 CESTA woman with ME wrote to her GP pleading for help to “get enough food to live” and expressing despair at not getting the care she felt she needed when she was admitted to hospital, an inquest heard.
At the start of her inquest in Exeter, it was revealed that Boothby O’Neill’s GP, Dr Lucy Shenton, who had worked hard to get her help, would not appear to give evidence because she had suffered post-traumatic stress disorder over the case. Her family and her GP surgery tried to get help for her and she was admitted to the Royal Devon three times. On the first occasion, in March 2021, she was discharged on the same day after a doctor said they could not find “anything medical” wrong.colleagues and social services asking for someone to “get stuck in” and not treat her patient as a “medical outlier”.
Boothby O’Neill died in October 2021. Giving evidence, Shenton’s GP colleague, Dr Paul McDermott, said the surgery did not have specialist knowledge of ME/CFS. He said: “We needed help. We all needed help. Maeve needed help.”
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