Young mum misdiagnosed in phone call dies three days after getting cancer prognosis

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A mum-of-three passed away just weeks after being misdiagnosed by a doctor in a phone call. Laura Barlow had been living in pain for months.The 33-year-old thought the pain was connected to a diagnosis of endometriosis she received from her GP during a five-minute phone call.But three months down the line, when she was finally referred to a cancer clinic, she was told there was "nothing the doctors could do" for her.She was told to "go home and spend time with her kids" and passed away at home three days after receiving her final diagnosis, leaving behind her husband and three children, aged one, two and nine.Manchester Evening News reports she met her husband, Mike, while they were working at the same hospital he claims "failed her".

Devastated Mikebelieves if Laura had been seen by her GP in person, she would have been diagnosed sooner.He said: "We could have had more time with my wife.

Not three days. They failed her." The widowed dad, from Manchester and who works as a porter for Pilgrim’s Hospital in Lincolnshire.And he is now asking the government to mandate in-person doctor's appointments.

An online petition, started by a family friend, has already gathered more than 13,700 signatures.He said: "She was never given the opportunity to see them face to face.