It was a Sunday night. No mistakes were made on this end. I’m a retired nurse, I told my daughter it was apprendicitis, and to get her to the ER. Triage is simple: a fever and pain around the right side of the umbilicus, plus vomiting, is appendicitis unless proven otherwise. The triage nurse (an RN) was too ignorant to assess an abdominal patient in a recumbent position. My SIL was at home with the other kids, my daughter begged them for 2 and 1/2 hours to please reassess my granddaughter, but even though there was ONE OTHER PATIENT, somehow they couldn’t.
She is 12, had the same pediatrician since birth. But then, you know it all, so why am I bothering with you, genius?
I didn’t mean offense. I’ve been in ERs where triage was a tough job.