Sep 28 2009
What’s up with Doctors?
Today my husband’s dad went to the Emergency Room at the Scripps hospital in Encinitas because he was feeling clammy, cold, and was shaking. They admitted him, found something weird on the EKG, but rulled out heart attack. After a few hours in the hospital, he started to develop a fever, so the doctors gave him some antibiotics and sent him home. No diagnosis. WTF? How do doctors do that — or how do people LET them get away with doing that? How do they admit someone to stay in the hospital, and because they couldn’t find what was wrong with him, they just pumped him full of antibiotics and then sent him on his way? If I was Rory’s mom, I would have not left until they gave me an answer as to what had happened. His white blood cell count was up, which can mean anything - but it does mean that his body is fighting something. It’s a miracle these doctors are even allowed to practice. I understand it is near flu season and everyone is busy but come on, a 60+ year old guy comes in to the E.R. for something that does not look like a heart attack, but that does look like SOMETHING, and you send him home without an answer? I would never, ever stand for that. I wouldn’t be able to. How about you? Am I overreacting?
