Dr Michael Mosley goes missing during hike on Greek island

[ltron]

His wife is also a doctor, maybe she should have been more forceful by stopping him walking off alone, unless he didn't fully convey to her how unwell he was feeling. Easy to say with hindsight though.

The thing is he may have been fine initially, but being out in that baking sun can easily give you heat stroke or heat illness.

I think I got it once on holiday (or was on the verge of getting it) after being out in the baking sun for a long time in a dry heat (you don't feel that hot) with 40C temperatures and I didn't realise until I suddenly started feeling very unwell. Drinking a huge amount of water, going straight back to the hotel by car (someone else was driving of course) and lying on my bed for at least half an hour eventually started to sort it out, but it was not pleasant.

 

[Mr Badger]

His wife is also a doctor, maybe she should have been more forceful by stopping him walking off alone, unless he didn't fully convey to her how unwell he was feeling. Easy to say with hindsight though.

Where there's blame, there's a claim!

Assuming that things are as they seem, his wife probably deeply regrets not taking him back to their accommodation herself.

 

[Uther]

Regardless of the circumstances, it's a very sad end.

 

[neocon]

His wife is also a doctor, maybe she should have been more forceful by stopping him walking off alone, unless he didn't fully convey to her how unwell he was feeling. Easy to say with hindsight though.

Dr are the worst patients

 

[Dougsnake]

RIP such a sad shame a man of his calibre went the way he did

 

[Dis86]

Hope it was swift and painless.

 

[adam cool dude]

His wife is also a doctor, maybe she should have been more forceful by stopping him walking off alone, unless he didn't fully convey to her how unwell he was feeling. Easy to say with hindsight though.

You get a lot of people who are academic smart but not real world smart. I am not saying this is the case but it sure feels like it.

It does upset me when a life is taken so easily though.

 

[hurfdurf]

Interesting. A friend of mine recently passed away aged mid sixties (had an aggressive form of cancer that came on quickly, he otherwise seemed very healthy) and the overwhelming view was that this was a young age for him to be taken.

Where abouts do you live?

The UK, but I’ve seen 20 year olds die, so 67 isn’t bad. I get some people only see people die of old age and if that’s the case 67 is young compared to 87, but overall, in comparison to kids dying, 67 isn’t a bad innings. He’s lived a full life, married, had kids, etc.

About retirement age is not what I'd consider a good innings.

I guess I’m not lucky enough to live in a world where I’m unaware of people dying as kids or in their 20’s.

Comparison is the thief of joy. He had a good innings.

 

[adam cool dude]

The UK, but I’ve seen 20 year olds die, so 67 isn’t bad. I get some people only see people die of old age and if that’s the case 67 is young compared to 87, but overall, in comparison to kids dying, 67 isn’t a bad innings. He’s lived a full life, married, had kids, etc.



I guess I’m not lucky enough to live in a world where I’m unaware of people dying as kids or in their 20’s.

Comparison is the thief of joy. He had a good innings.

Agreed in the grand scheme of things 67 is a good innings. I'm 37 and feel like I have already lived quite a full life. Another 30 years would be more than enough for me. I get to see my kids become adults and fulfill pretty much everything.

I had a friend from school who's first child got some ultra rare disease and was dead before his 10th birthday.

 

[adidan]

Agreed in the grand scheme of things 67 is a good innings. I'm 37 and feel like I have already lived quite a full life. Another 30 years would be more than enough for me. I get to see my kids become adults and fulfill pretty much everything.

I had a friend from school who's first child got some ultra rare disease and was dead before his 10th birthday.

Not sure your kids will be as happy to see you go at 67, as you seemingly are, but I have no idea about your life so good for you I guess?

 

[Uther]

Not sure your kids will be as happy to see you go at 67, as you seemingly are, but I have no idea about your life so good for you I guess?

I've known a lot of people go around 60, one of the reasons I quit work early. Everyone assumes they will live to be 80/90/100 when that's not the case at all for a lot of people.
I hope Mosly just dropped dead from a stroke, or a heart attack, rather than suffering.

 

[Mr Badger]

The UK, but I’ve seen 20 year olds die, so 67 isn’t bad. I get some people only see people die of old age and if that’s the case 67 is young compared to 87, but overall, in comparison to kids dying, 67 isn’t a bad innings. He’s lived a full life, married, had kids, etc.

Are you from Glasgow by any chance?

Obviously you can suffer an accident or violent death at any age, but perceptions of a full life clearly differ. I've been to a total of three funerals in the last two years for relatives of mine, all three of which were in their nineties.

67 seems a young age for Mosley to go in this way, unless of course he already had something seriously wrong with him.

 

[adam cool dude]

Not sure your kids will be as happy to see you go at 67, as you seemingly are, but I have no idea about your life so good for you I guess?

I lost my Dad at 20 and it sucks no doubt. Obviously I want to live a long life but it isn't something I lose sleep over. Whilst 67 is still youngish in the grand scheme of things it isn't as bad as you might make out. The world life expectancy is 71 years old.

I am just trying to turn a negative into a positive and making sense what seems on the outside as a bit of a wasted life.

 

[adidan]

I've known a lot of people go around 60, one of the reasons I quit work early. Everyone assumes they will live to be 80/90/100 when that's not the case at all for a lot of people.
I hope Mosly just dropped dead from a stroke, or a heart attack, rather than suffering.

I think we all can agree quality of life trumps age of life if
nothing else.

But yeah, importance of work in life lost impact when my dad died in my thirties. Hard working and years of shift work put him in the ground early.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

The thing is he may have been fine initially, but being out in that baking sun can easily give you heat stroke or heat illness.

I think I got it once on holiday (or was on the verge of getting it) after being out in the baking sun for a long time in a dry heat (you don't feel that hot) with 40C temperatures and I didn't realise until I suddenly started feeling very unwell. Drinking a huge amount of water, going straight back to the hotel by car (someone else was driving of course) and lying on my bed for at least half an hour eventually started to sort it out, but it was not pleasant.

I got it once as well at least I think I did one minute you're ok and you're coping and next your body physically just... stops coping its very sudden and very unpleasant and you have to stop whatever you're doing immediately or you're going to be in big trouble I don't think people get just how sudden and how completely it wipes you out. 47c is far too hot to be going on long walks on especially when you get lost. Very sad

 

[Mr Badger]

I think we all can agree quality of life trumps age of life if
nothing else.

But yeah, importance of work in life lost impact when my dad died in my thirties. Hard working and years of shift work put him in the ground early.

Nobody ever said on their deathbed "I wish I had spent more time in the office".

 

[firstborn]

I got it once as well at least I think I did one minute you're ok and you're coping and next your body physically just... stops coping its very sudden and very unpleasant and you have to stop whatever you're doing immediately or you're going to be in big trouble I don't think people get just how sudden and how completely it wipes you out. 47c is far too hot to be going on long walks on especially when you get lost. Very sad

Having jogged a little in the heat it's not an instant death sentence.

 

[200sols]

Agreed in the grand scheme of things 67 is a good innings. I'm 37 and feel like I have already lived quite a full life. Another 30 years would be more than enough for me. I get to see my kids become adults and fulfill pretty much everything.

I had a friend from school who's first child got some ultra rare disease and was dead before his 10th birthday.

67 isn't great these days.

 

[jpaul]

47c is far too hot to be going on long walks on especially when you get lost. Very sad

- yes sounds like the getting lost was a tragic error - whether the sun is just too overhead to orient yourself ,and lack of familiarity;
always enthusiastic in his listenable just one thing series (title nabbed from Peter Falk ?) - RIP.

 

[MartinPrince]

RIP, seemed like a really nice bloke. Such a shame he did all kinds of health programs to try and avoid an early death like his father and grandfather and then this happens. Apparently he suffered a mini stroke and I'm wondering if he had another one the day he died.

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY reveals how his wife feared he had suffered a stroke

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY, pictured in the sea, blacked out while swimming in Cornwall last weekend, leading his GP wife Clare to fear that he had suffered a stroke.

www.dailymail.co.uk

It wasn't a mini stroke which is what his wife thought he might of had, he actually had Global Transient Amnesia which is not related to a TIA or stroke. This is normally brought on by cold water swimming, vigorous exercise, sex or extreme stress. (He was cold water swimming at the time in 2019).

Once you've had Global Transient Amnesia you don't often get it again but seeing he felt unwell and his wife, who is a GP, didn't link the symptoms to that then I don't think it would be the reason he didn't make it back to the place where they were staying in Pedi.

I suppose the post mortem may highlight why he didn't ultimately make it back. Tragic loss for his family and to public health information at large.