Why don’t you believe the doctors and nurses
Quit trying to second guess
They told me my husband was just having a touch of gastroenteritis and to take him home. I insisted there was more going on, they finally agreed to do a CAT scan to shut me up. 90 minutes later they were rushing him into surgery.
It was appendicitis and it burst as they were removing it.
A couple of weeks later they told me that he was becoming addicted to the pain killers because he was complaining of extreme pain and they just knew it could not be a problem.
I asked his surgeon to stop by and take a look at him. She took about a minute to see that he had a major infection that was causing the pain.
Quit trying to second guess
If I did not second guess the doctors I would be a widow twice over.
They know medicine, but I know my husband.
She knows her dad.
If she thinks there is a problem then there is a good chance that there is.
Its not that I don’t believe the doctors, however, sometimes asking for more help for a loved one is not a bad thing and I had never heard once a catheter it in, one still feeling incredible pain and discomfort which is why I bothered to post TO GET SOME INPUT. Not in any way to bash a doctor or nurse! So please give me an ever loving break!! I am at my wits end dealing with a crying 81 year old mom and a dad half out of his mind in pain crying to me on the phone
I have set multiple doctors straight, and had them thank me.
Trust, but verify and learn the latest studies. Your doctors don’t read them and are going from what they learned in school, 40 years ago.
Experience.
You clearly know nothing of medical care. Most good healthcare professionals know how much incompetency runs throughout the entire industry... Always good to ask “does this make sense?”
Do you know what the 3rd leading cause of death in the u.s. is?
Look it up.
Quit trying to second guess
Because they are not God and often they are wrong or miss something.
By all means, second guess them and advocate for the patient and be educated in the process.
Doctors do not practice lockstep and different doctors have different preferences in how to treat people There's not a one size fits all answer for every problem.
“Why don’t you believe the doctors and nurses. Quit trying to second guess.”
OMG!
In 2007, my mom was within 12 hours of death (per the specialist) when my SISTER diagnosed her issue (myasthenia gravis) via the internet. One ER doctor told her she just needed to “go home” because “she’s old”. Her own doctor (affirmative action grad) came up with a few things that weren’t even CLOSE.
The day she said that when she swallowed the water came out her nose was, fortunately, the day Sis connected all her symptoms to MG. Sis called Neurology at the hospital closest to Mom in Rochester, NY, and raised a stink until she talked to a specialist. Neurologist concurred with Sis re MG, and said she needed to be at the hospital — two hours away — ASAP — or she wouldn’t “make it”.
Brother in PA immediately drove to NY and took her to the hospital — had to carry her pitiful emaciated body to the car. (She hadn’t eaten in several days — couldn’t swallow.) I got the next flight to ROC from LAX, Sis got the next flight to ROC from TPA, and we converged on the hospital the next morning.
This week, 13 years later at age 96, Mom is sending Monopoly money to Democrat candidates begging for funds, and adding “notes” in the envelopes. LOL! She just finished Hannity’s book and is starting the one by Horowitz. She’s be-bopping around the family farmhouse where her grandfather was born.
So, that’s just ONE reason why we don’t always believe doctors and nurses, and why we “second guess”.