⟡ SWANK Medical Discrimination Archive – NHS & St Mary’s A&E ⟡
“My Daughter Couldn’t Breathe. I Took Her to A&E. They Treated Me Like the Problem.”
Filed: 21 November 2024
Reference: SWANK/NHS/STMARYS-HONOR-BREATHING-EMERGENCY-01
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Author: Polly Chromatic
I. Honor Was the One Struggling to Breathe — But I Was the One Scrutinised
This document is a real-time account of an emergency hospital visit to St Mary’s A&E, after Honor began experiencing serious respiratory distress.
The response was not clinical urgency.
It was suspicion. Defensiveness. And disbelief.
Despite:
A child clearly unwell
A parent calmly presenting
A full medical and social history on file
A lawful written-only communication adjustment in place
— the attending staff questioned, challenged, and disregarded the family from the moment they arrived.
This wasn’t medicine.
It was disbelief with a stethoscope.
II. What the Email Documents
That Honor was the patient, but staff focused their skepticism on the mother
That the parent, a known respiratory-disabled carer, was spoken over and doubted
That oxygen records and verbal difficulty were dismissed or misread
That a second doctor had to be requested — and only then did the tone shift to appropriate care
Let the record show:
This wasn’t bad luck.
It was a documented pattern of frontline hostility towards visibly disabled carers.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because when a child can’t breathe and the NHS looks at the mother with suspicion instead of urgency — we name that.
Because it’s not just a care failure — it’s systemic procedural humiliation.
Because disbelief is not a medical instrument.
We filed this because:
The NHS made the parent feel surveilled while trying to secure care
The child had to wait while tone and attitude were imposed
And the archive doesn’t accept “miscommunication” as an excuse when the diagnosis was breathlessness and the response was interrogation
Let the record show:
Honor couldn’t breathe.
Her mother brought her in.
The hospital hesitated.
And SWANK didn’t.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept emergency rooms where attitude precedes attention.
We do not accept clinical suspicion as a default for disabled families.
We do not accept that getting care for your child means being emotionally examined yourself.
Let the record show:
The child was sick.
The mother was steady.
The documentation was immediate.
And SWANK — filed it as evidence of institutional breathlessness.
This wasn’t triage.
It was a procedural power play in the shape of “care.”
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