When The Doctors Fail
When the Doctors Fail in their job.....What then ? Are we just left to pick up the piece's ?
I know Doctor's aren't super human I have no illusions about that, They train hard, go to medical school, and are committed to saving human life...... But do they forget in the process of all of that how to communicate with people ? I'm not putting all the blame on the Doctors because as usual it all comes down to money and the NHS.
I suppose really if the hospital had more money to spend they wouldn't have to restrict the use of medical equiptment thats why the hospital held off doing expencive tests on her even thought I kept asking them if they could do an MRI scan to check why she was having so much pain in her neck and her head, the only thing the doctors did was take blood tests and when they came back negative they were at a loss about what to do next, The Doctor who performed the Sympathetic block did however order a CT Scan of her back where he had done the procedure to see if there was any leak around where he had put the needle in.....of course nothing showed and I don't I think I excpected it to really not in her back... The problems were coming from her around the top of her spine and her neck and head then again I'm not a Doctor am I ....I'm only a parent who knows when there is something wrong with her child....Why do Doctors just not listen to people do they think because we didn't go to medical school like they did that we have no knowledge ?
The Doctor also had the neurology team come round and check Natalie out.....Some of the top Doctors in the medical field apparently so he said, Im sorry I know they have a job to do but if you had been there...If you had seen them and if things were not so Scary and serious I swear I would have laughed outloud.
A team of five Doctors came into the room that morning, two of them took a seat one with a note pad and pen and the other who sat next to her just kind of trying to look as though she had something to do.
Then one Doctor walked round the bed where Natalie was lying and glanced over at another Doctor who was standing at the bottom of her bed, the fifth Doctor just looked out the window and occasionally turned round to listen to the one Doctor who was doing the examination.
Now it doesn't take a lot of knowledge to do the kind of tests they were performing on her and I think that's why I found the whole thing so utterly ridiculous, The Doctor who was testing her Nervous System asked her to follow his finger ( remember that Natalie cant open her eyes because of the light and the pain) he then tries to shine a torch into her eyes causing even more pain, she cant lift her head of the pillow because it makes her sick and causes too much pain in her neck and head......So he places his hands under head and neck and raises it for her......Duhhh.
So ok after we get the sick bowl because now she has just been sick, he asks her if she can put her chin onto her chest ??? Ok so he is testing for meningitis......Although the blood tests for that have all came back Negative.
Then there are the leg raising bits ..You know lift your leg as high as you can ...Bend your leg..Put your leg up to your chest ect :......
and during all of this he is mumbling away and the Doctor with the note pad and paper is jotting things down.....Basically I think she was writing (yes or No)
So then they leave the room as quick as they arrived and I think the whole examination took 15mins, every thing is Fine he said as he leaves the room nothing wrong that I can see.
Ok and Im thinking to myself when were you able to examine her like an MRI scanning machine, did you just look at her and think oh yes nothing wrong there....Isn't that why X-Ray Machines were invented...To find things inside the body that are not right because we are unable to see them ourselves??
So What now? where do we go from here? I'm so confused, thoughts are going round and round in my head and for one brief moment I thought to myself.....Is she really pretending ?
I looked at my daughter lying there crying and in pain then such a feeling of guilt came over me and I felt so ashamed for even thinking such a thought.
Thats when I started to get Angry.
I know Doctor's aren't super human I have no illusions about that, They train hard, go to medical school, and are committed to saving human life...... But do they forget in the process of all of that how to communicate with people ? I'm not putting all the blame on the Doctors because as usual it all comes down to money and the NHS.
I suppose really if the hospital had more money to spend they wouldn't have to restrict the use of medical equiptment thats why the hospital held off doing expencive tests on her even thought I kept asking them if they could do an MRI scan to check why she was having so much pain in her neck and her head, the only thing the doctors did was take blood tests and when they came back negative they were at a loss about what to do next, The Doctor who performed the Sympathetic block did however order a CT Scan of her back where he had done the procedure to see if there was any leak around where he had put the needle in.....of course nothing showed and I don't I think I excpected it to really not in her back... The problems were coming from her around the top of her spine and her neck and head then again I'm not a Doctor am I ....I'm only a parent who knows when there is something wrong with her child....Why do Doctors just not listen to people do they think because we didn't go to medical school like they did that we have no knowledge ?
The Doctor also had the neurology team come round and check Natalie out.....Some of the top Doctors in the medical field apparently so he said, Im sorry I know they have a job to do but if you had been there...If you had seen them and if things were not so Scary and serious I swear I would have laughed outloud.
A team of five Doctors came into the room that morning, two of them took a seat one with a note pad and pen and the other who sat next to her just kind of trying to look as though she had something to do.
Then one Doctor walked round the bed where Natalie was lying and glanced over at another Doctor who was standing at the bottom of her bed, the fifth Doctor just looked out the window and occasionally turned round to listen to the one Doctor who was doing the examination.
Now it doesn't take a lot of knowledge to do the kind of tests they were performing on her and I think that's why I found the whole thing so utterly ridiculous, The Doctor who was testing her Nervous System asked her to follow his finger ( remember that Natalie cant open her eyes because of the light and the pain) he then tries to shine a torch into her eyes causing even more pain, she cant lift her head of the pillow because it makes her sick and causes too much pain in her neck and head......So he places his hands under head and neck and raises it for her......Duhhh.
So ok after we get the sick bowl because now she has just been sick, he asks her if she can put her chin onto her chest ??? Ok so he is testing for meningitis......Although the blood tests for that have all came back Negative.
Then there are the leg raising bits ..You know lift your leg as high as you can ...Bend your leg..Put your leg up to your chest ect :......
and during all of this he is mumbling away and the Doctor with the note pad and paper is jotting things down.....Basically I think she was writing (yes or No)
So then they leave the room as quick as they arrived and I think the whole examination took 15mins, every thing is Fine he said as he leaves the room nothing wrong that I can see.
Ok and Im thinking to myself when were you able to examine her like an MRI scanning machine, did you just look at her and think oh yes nothing wrong there....Isn't that why X-Ray Machines were invented...To find things inside the body that are not right because we are unable to see them ourselves??
So What now? where do we go from here? I'm so confused, thoughts are going round and round in my head and for one brief moment I thought to myself.....Is she really pretending ?
I looked at my daughter lying there crying and in pain then such a feeling of guilt came over me and I felt so ashamed for even thinking such a thought.
Thats when I started to get Angry.
posted by BusyDizzy | 4:27 PM
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