I have a long history of kidney stones, and I won’t fault the ER doctor for their treatment as described, although the pronoun BS would be annoying.
The ER doc had a passed-stone in hand, so they knew the cause of the pain. Infection is caused by blockages, rarely by the scratching/scarring of a stone passing. They gave a CT scan (not cheap) to see if any other stones remained. If they were scrimping on treatment, they wouldn’t have done that.
For better or worse, the ER’s job is to get you out of the ER alive, and pass you back to your primary care doctor or specialists.
i have long history too- had a blockage once that caused really bizarre thing- blood cells would back up behind the stone- and woudl take on the shape of the tube they were goign down through, and every now and again, they owudl let loose and come out past the stone bockage i guess when the pressure gto strong enough to drive them out, and they looked like worms when they came out
I’ll post a link to a photo- it’s pretty gross though- I must have passed several dozens of them over the time i had the blockage- took some to the urologist who determined they were just blood cells that formed- but wow was it unnerving to go through not knowing what the heck was happening
They put a catheter in for a few weeks, and when they took it out, stones had attached to the outside of the catheter, which felt like yanking barbed wire out when they finally removed it- Doc had the nerve to say “Hold Still!” Then he saw the catheter exterior, and said- no wonder you had so much pain- sorry”
The link of the clots is again kinda gross- as it had bloody urine too- so just be warned-
P.S i found out that salty snack foods was a huge contributor to stones- since cutting them out and going on allopurinol i haven’t had and more pass, although there are still a few in the kidneys that attempt to pass every now and again- but so far, no more blockages-
I work in an ER. The doctors in any ER are usually so busy and stressed asking someone their pronouns isn’t anywhere on their radar.
This is a bs story.