News £500,000 Payout For Museum Boss Over Mental Trauma

[Hashi]

She did well. Maybe she should post here in the "Accomplishments and Success" forum.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

I don't see how this is actual PTSD. She sounds SPOILT in that there was the expectation of an ambulance getting there ASAP. Well, no, it's not like the dominos pizza guarantee of 30 minutes or less or it's free (ok this was a few years ago, but still a valid comparison).

@Loner,
If she was (edit) abused as a child, that would be the cause and this is the trigger. They should not be confused as then anyone with a broken foot or whatever will start screaming PTSD.

 

[cherryblossom]

Wow, so many replies, While I was trying to formulate my own response.

Yes.

There is a huge difference between a dislocated knee and dislocated knee CAP!

I don't think the bus had started.

That makes sense.

I wonder if she had an old injury that caused her knee cap to 'go'?

Perhaps, I'm thinking too much into it. I suppose what annoys me is that she has someone to 'sue'. Most of us here don't have that. We just have to struggle on, and battle PTSD, struggle to work and keep a roof over our heads. I guess it's that which makes me angry.

I really don't believe in trying to 'compare trauma's'. But if someone can claim PTSD from dislocating a knee and gain half a million pounds, where does that leave people like you and me who have suffered big, life threatening traumas, that have affected our lives for years? It seems to me, to diminish our struggles, and diminish PTSD. It makes no sense to me.

 

[tillybee]

Excuse my lack of knowledge ........who is paying for this half a million? If it's down to the ambulance service or local health authority - thats going to cause other cut backs etc etc

And the NHS is paid for by the tax payer? So I bet the majority of sufferers and supporters have suffered more than a dodgy knee - we pay tax - where's our 500k?

 

[Lucycat]

gain half a million pounds, where does that leave people like you and me who have suffered big, life threatening traumas, that have affected our lives for years? It seems to me, to diminish our struggles, and diminish PTSD. It makes no sense to me.

Yes, I totally agree. The Police told me that I could claim Criminal Injuries Compensation. When I looked into it, it did not apply if the abuser was a part of your immediate family living in your home at certain dates ( that just happened to cover the years when I was abused) I was not looking for a payout anyway, but would have taken it if offered - and if valid it would have been the grand sum of £2000 maximum.

f it's down to the ambulance service or local health authority - thats going to cause other cut backs etc etc

Yep! I believe it is the Ambulance Service that gets to pay - or at least their insurers will. But that insurance does not come for free. Bottom line is we are all paying for it.

The article really annoys me. The picture of her grinning like a Cheshire Cat, with the PTSD T-Shirt. It is hard not to judge. Also it reads as if the judge fully accepts that Dissociative Seizures are a 'normal' part of PTSD. She must have a damn good lawyer and a very sympathetic psychiatrist.

 

[Lucycat]

If she was amused as a child, that would be the cause and this is the trigger.

I just love your typo here, especially as you have already said;

She sounds SPOILT

 

[tillybee]

Yes, I totally agree. The Police told me that I could claim Criminal Injuries Compensation. When I looked into it, it did not apply if the abuser was a part of your immediate family living in your home at certain dates ( that just happened to cover the years when I was abused) I was not looking for a payout anyway, but would have taken it if offered - and if valid it would have been the grand sum of £2000 maximum.

Yes agreed - I don't like the Criminal Injuries System either I think this article has annoyed alot of people for a variety of reasons. It's like just when you were sat thinking that life wasn't fair, you read this article and It certainly adds weight to your theory :/

 

[Venusian]

I wish I knew the whole story, newspapers are notorious for sensationalizing the wrong part of the story, making sure all the facts stated are true but leaving out other important details. She was stuck in the seats for nearly an hour in excruciating pain, not just the 17 minutes. This article is too short to be the full story and we can't make assumptions on the little bit of info that we do have. If we do that we are no better than the people that make jokes and assumptions about people claiming disability for PTSD. We just don't know how the article minimized what she went through. She may be smiling in the photo but then so do I and I am sure all of you do too.

 

[Lucycat]

She was stuck in the seats for nearly an hour in excruciating pain, not just the 17 minutes. .

I think what makes me cross is the fact that the National Health Service and Ambulance Service are just that. Services - not a God given right. A knee cap dislocation is not a life threatening priority. Others whose lives were at risk would take priority. The Ambulance service did not cause her physical injury and I fail to see how they are responsible for her psychological injury.

Of course nobody will ever know if the ambulance had been 17 minutes earlier would she still have suffered such distress?

 

[Loner]

Yes, I think she had a dislocated knee CAP and not a dislocated KNEE. A truly dislocated knee would be some of the most intense pain physical pain a person could possibly feel, and DOES involve a complete tear of every major associated ligament in the knee. It also causes an amount of instability that could be very scary and distressing, especially if well intentioned onlookers tried to restrain her in a position that exacerbated the pain and injury, I could see that being somewhat of a traumatic situation.

However, that was not the situation. She had a dislocated knee cap. I can't see this meeting the criteria for PTSD. Acute stress disorder MAYBE, but still, I don't see how the paramedics are in any way at fault, or how she is owed money in any way.

 

[Venusian]

The fact is that we don't know all the facts that were brought out in court in front of a judge whom I assume is an intelligent person, but I could be wrong on that. We also don't know if the ambulance service was the only person named in the lawsuit. The article said they were a contributing factor but not the entire factor. Again, newspapers are notorious at leaving out details that could make the outcome more understandable to people who know more about the subject than the average layman reading the paper. Writers are constrained by the amount of room that is available and by editors that delete entire sections of the story to conform to the layout of the paper. I am just saying, don't jump to conclusions from the small amount of information put out by a newspaper that has to limit the number of words it can allocate to a single story.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

Why on earth would someone deserve half a million pounds for a dislocated knee cap and having to wait a little longer than average for the ambulance to arrive?! Honestly, this makes me nauseous. Give that money to the people who are starving or can't afford a life-saving operation. A little compensation would be alright, I'd get that, but half a million? That is just insanity.
I mean, if it worked that way for everyone, most people on this forum would be millionaires by now.