New Brunswick man says he waited weeks for medical information about his rare disease
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A New Brunswick man says he wasn't told about warning signs of his rare condition until six weeks after a doctor noted them.
A New Brunswick man, who says he wasn’t told about warning signs of his rare condition until six weeks after a doctor noted them, believes he fell through the cracks in the province’s overwhelmed health-care system.
“I had to trust the medical system, which we all trust,” said Jean-Claude Belliveau of Memramcook.
Belliveau sometimes gets foot ulcers, which are sores on his feet linked to his Type 2 diabetes.
In November 2023, a nurse doing a routine check-up of his feet told him he had an infection.
He was admitted to the Dr. Georges-L. Dumont Hospital’s trauma department in Moncton, and had to have a toe amputated due to a flesh-eating bacteria infection.
Shortly before Christmas, he says his family doctor told him his foot had another infection, and urged him to go back to the same hospital.
His foot was X-rayed and he wasn’t given any news after his discharge.
Belliveau attended various follow-up appointments through January, and had another X-ray in late January.
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