In the past few years it seems that a lot of doctors and hospitals assume you are OK and send you home unless you have a totally obvious condition. We have experienced it numerous times in my family. Mom had a tumor on her uterus, doctor said it was probably benign and let her go on her cruise. By the time she came back they found it was malignant and doubled in size! She’s doing fine now but the surgery complications were horrible.
A lady I knew in her early sixties was told she had eaten a bad burger and that her pain would pass. Sent home twice on consecutive days. No tests were ever done. She was the wife of a prominent businessman, so money wasn’t an issue and she had no history of health issues. In actuality she had a bowel obstruction and eventual ruptured bowel. She was dead within three days. And she died an unnecessarily excruciating death.
In the past few years it seems that a lot of doctors and hospitals assume you are OK and send you home unless you have a totally obvious condition. We have experienced it numerous times in my family. Mom had a tumor on her uterus, doctor said it was probably benign and let her go on her cruise. By the time she came back they found it was malignant and doubled in size! She’s doing fine now but the surgery complications were horrible.
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because of this sort of attitude I know Five people who have endured septic gallbladders or septic appendix. Very poor diagnostic skills and care in average US ER. Unless the machine shows something that they can use to prove to the insurance company, you are sent home.
Medicare and Medicaid and ALL insurances do not let drs do "just in case" CT's or MRI's or extra labs etc....there has to be a clearly defined reason stated for these tests to be done...