do have an "air" about them.
Posted By: Yes, doctors on 2009-09-15
In Reply to: Differing opinions - ALICE
They're not God but they play one within the walls of a hospital and in their offices. Their attitudes are, at times, irreproachable. In 1976, our 6-year-old daughter was brought home from school by her teacher at noon. She had vomited 3 or 4 times and her stomach was hurting. Since we were on our way into town, I called her dr. and he said to bring her right in. On the way to town (we lived 40 miles from town), she complained of pain on the right side. Well, I suspected her appendix, even though she had never had any complaints before. I told her dr. what she had told me. He checked her out but still diagnosed her with stomach flu, gave her some type of antibiotic and sent us on our way. She took all the medication and seemed to feel better but on the third day, after the dr. visit, she started hurting again, even though she had stopped vomiting. I took her back again and this time she had an injection which really did seem to help her. She even seemed well enough to go back to school but within 2 days, she was feeling sick again and was complaining still of stomach pain on the right. I took her back in and this time I confronted him and said, I think it is her appendix. He replied, I'm the doctor. I'll make the diagnosis. He did check her out but unbeknownst to him, our daughter who is a little tuffy had told me she didn't want another shot. Apparently, she was able to fool the dr. He kept insisting it was just a bad case of stomach flu and would subside with time. I left his office, used a pay phone and called my sister's dr. When we got there, he diagnosed it as appendicitis and wondered how she was still able to walk. Our daughter was a big girl at 6 years of age. I could never have carried her and my husband was working. I also had our 1 and 3-year-old sons with me. To make my short story long, she was admitted that afternoon to the hospital and operated on. Her appendix had ruptured and she spent 7 days in the hospital and had to go in 3 months later to have her appendix removed because the infection was so bad they didn't want to risk removing it at that time. This dr. could have let my baby girl die because of his arrogance and refusal to accept my diagnosis. Three years later our oldest son was bit on the knee by a rattlesnake. I no longer used this dr. but he paid our son a visit with our sons new dr. and claimed the bite looked more like a spider bit. IDJIT.... As far from GOD as one can get...Our son saw the snake bite him.
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