Silly Milly has been pretty sick for the last couple of weeks... struggled with a cough and cold, a runny nose, the works...
Then on Sunday she had a fever that peaked all the way to 103.5... extremely high for a tiny little baby so we took her to this hospital where as soon as they checked her vitals they got her right in. The first Dr. gave her some sort of medicine and applied some weirdo thing to her to take a urine sample...
then the main Dr. came in and was like "I have no idea why he gave her that, why he did it that way, or why he put this thing on her for the urine sample, instead he should do this..."
then they ran a bunch of dumb tests including a catheter thing and came back and said that she had a UTI...
they gave her all this medicine and said to rotate between them blah blah blah and to see the pediatrician within three days...
so today we see the pediatrician and shes like "WHY DID THEY PERSCRIBE THAT!!!??!?" and "Why did they say she has a UTI she doesn't have a UTI..." and then started listing off things that it might be, but she is really not sure on any of it.
Are they just retarded or do they just not care? The way I see it is if you can't even care enough to carefully diagnose a tiny little innocent baby before you start pumping all sorts of medicines and anti biotics into her, then maybe you are in the wrong profession. Maybe. I could be wrong. I just figure maybe people should talk about things if they aren't sure... maybe make a phone call or two?
Maybe not send home kids without any answer whatsoever and on yet another medicine when you don't even know what the problem is?
And thank you very much but we don't want to give Emilly all of those dumb shots.
J-Cub
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The medical field is not so organized and communication fails a ton. My patient the other day had a chest tube in for a collapsed lung, got it removed and the first Doc said "ok you are set to go home!". She got ready to be discharged and next doc said "looks like your lung collapsed again- gotta put the tube back". The nurse I was working with and I told her no something is not right here, her lungs sound fine, she is not having difficulty breathing. Turns out the Dr. was looking at the wrong xray! Oh and not to mention the other day as well the lab tech wanted me to draw blood on a pt. whose name didnt match the vial. You have to be an advocate for your child for sure, ask questions and don't be afraid to say no :)
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