Doctors did not fixate on Mounjaro use before woman’s death – coroner

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By Sam Russell, PA Media

Doctors did not fixate on a grandmother’s use of Mounjaro weight loss medication before her death, an inquest heard.

The family of 73-year-old Caroline Savage have voiced concerns that clinicians too readily attributed her symptoms to side effects of the drug before her death near Harleston, Norfolk in 2024.

But Norfolk area coroner Yvonne Blake said medics had considered other possibilities too.

Jasmine Leng, who represented family members at the hearing on 24 August in Norwich, raised concerns about “diagnostic overshadowing and Mounjaro”.

But the coroner said: “It’s not clear to me from the evidence that the doctors were fixated with Mounjaro.”

She noted that mother-of-three Savage “had an increasing dose (of Mounjaro) but hadn’t yet given herself the increasing dose”.

“I don’t think there was an overshadowing by doctors,” said Blake.

However she critised "sparse" notes taken by doctors, who could not remember the patient.

Mounjaro was not mentioned in the coroner’s narrative conclusion, which found Savage died of faecal peritonitis due to perforated sigmoid diverticular disease.