Well, no news is good news, right? My phone didn't ring at 2:00a.m. again. I hope that means Hilary is feeling better. Otherwise, I'm going to drive up there and drag her home.
Wouldn't you think, as a doctor that only works with college students, and a student at the college recently died of a bacterial infection, that you'd be more cautious when a kid comes in sick? She comes to the clinic, has had a cold for over a week, is now running a fever, vomiting, having a hard time breathing, cough with a lot of chest pain. Would these symptoms warrant a chest ex-ray to check for pneumonia? Even if said child has had pneumonia before, would you throw a bottle of cough syrup with codeine at her and send her on her way so she can sleep? Really?
The next day she returns to explain that after taking the codeine her heart began racing, her throat itching, severe fatigue, yet inability to fall asleep, breathing becomes more and more difficult...and you tell her it surely wasn't the codeine that caused any of those symptoms. She says her chest and her back now hurt so bad she can hardly cough. Without even seeing her you give her a script for yet another cough medicine? It's a blizzard outside and you want her to walk to the clinic for that?
Hilary said, "mom, I don't think she paid attention to anything I said."
Grrr....no news is good news, right?
2 comments:
Sounds like the primary care doctor I had. Didn't get any help until I went to Urgent Care. I got anti-biotics to kick the problem. Now I go to the pulmonary specialist twice a year. He automatically gives me an RX for anti-biotic during the cold season. Not for the cold itself, but for the ensuing infections that lead to bronchitis and pneumonia. The pulmonary specialist can't figure out why regular doctors don't seem to understand that the cold virus leads to other things that anti-biotics will fight, thus avoiding worse problems. G'rrrr Don't have much confidence in the medical community at large.
I can usually tell when I see a doctor and they already have an opinion formed before they listen to what you have to say. It isn't worth my time to go any further with them. I suppose some people are clueless about their own body, or over dramatic. But when you've lived in your body all your life you should have an idea when something is off and what it is or isn't.
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