[60Gunner]

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When a person comes in with gastroenteritis, "pumping the stomach" is not a treatment. It isn't even considered as a treatment for gastroenteritis under any circumstances.

Furthermore, a simple noninvasive abdominal ultrasound would have found a bum gallbladder and stones. Did the ER hold him until the lab results came back? Holding for lab values is standard practice.

[Eva]

They kept him overnight! The surgeon was appalled, he didn’t even want to discuss it because of the possible repercussions.I have to say that my son had been showing signs of gall bladder problems for years, stomach pains and jaundiced eyes. The first time that I took him to the emergency room for severe stomach pain, he was only about seven years old. They suspected appendicitis, but found no sign of it. So, they sent him home. That was in a hospital in Mission Viejo, CA.