A vacationer in the UK claimed that he was unwillingly airlifted to a hospital 800 miles away after the vessel’s physician mistook his “pulled muscle” for a serious infection.
“I just can’t understand it — I was feeling totally panicked and angry,” lamented Stephen Cassidy, 60, to South West News Service.
As he’d had a hip replacement on that side, the concerned castaway visited the ship’s doctor, who, after conducting a physical examination and taking an X-ray, determined that something was awry.Courtesy Stephen Cassidy / SWNS All seemed hunky-dory until a nurse asked the former police dog handler his weight and told him that his wife needed to pack his bag because he had to leave.
“I never should have been medically disembarked from the ship – I was absolutely fuming,” said Cassidy.In addition, from that point on, the medical staff went “from being friendly” to “suddenly very hostile,” according to the patient. That’s when the patient learned the appalling truth: He didn’t have an infection and the injury was most likely a pulled muscle.His cruise of a lifetime had been cut short over the most innocuous of injuries.
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