Demand the CAT scan and an MRI.
Make it stick, make them do it.
Go for the best technology can do.
Dull pain with intermittent shooting pain?
Something is up!
Make them find it.
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I agree. It could be gall bladder????
Would it not make more sense to listen to the doctor and see the recommended specialist before demanding expensive, somewhat harmful in the case of CT, and possibly unnecessary testing?
Yeah!!!! demand a contrasted...er non contrasted...er IV and oral, nah jus oral... er nope just IV Contrasted CT scan...hmmm MRI..uh... yeah. Get something scanned with the "latest technology".
Yeah you tell them, cause you examined the patient and you know that it's just gotta be something.
Left upper quadrant pain could be any number of things... splenic infarct, splenic bleed from trauma (you might know if you've been hit but sometimes coughing in a patient with low platelets or other disorder that lab would have shown), peptic ulcer, diverticular disease, pancreatitis (labs), volvulus (weird but can happen), Intussusception (weird but can happen), pneumonia, pulmonary embolus, heart attack (myocardial infarction), abdominal or chest wall muscle strain from lifting or coughing, rib fracture, pleurisy, trapped fart, bowel obstruction, gastric outlet obstruction, mesenteric ischemia, eating to much, reflux esophagitis, diaphragmatic hernia, hiatal hernia, kidney stone, retroperitoneal bleed
....... yeah go in their and demand an MRI or CT. Watch them recheck your labs and then get a CT scan, radiology reading.... then complain about the bill unless your deductible is met.
If you're writing about this and posting it online. It's not an emergency. If you read your discharge instructions I'm sure it states, "if your condition worsens or you feel you need to be reexamined return to the ER for further evaluation."
If you have a private physician, a doctor that knows you, then you should see him/her. develop a plan to see what is the cause. Talk with them and that way you don't get a shotgun approach and avoid extra radiation and possible iatrogenic injury trying to find a cause for a pain that may be benign.....
or you can go to the ER and demand that CT scan. If you feel you were treated shabbily then WRITE a letter to the director of the emergency department, the chief of staff of the hospital and the CEO of the hospital. They can try to explain to you why you weren't admitted since it seems that you didn't understand fully what they found, what they were looking for and why you were told you were to be admitted and then discharged.
The doctor may have wanted to admit you but you may not realize that you didn't meet the admission criteria (rules and check off lists) to qualify and that the doctors job in the ER is dependent on following these rules and may face civil and even criminal fraud charges if they admit or observe a patient that doesn't meet criteria as well as lose his license if it is deemed a repeatable and persistent deviation of practice from the standard of care in the hospital and medical staff's practice policies.
You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait till all this gets federalized. It's gonna be beautiful.
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