A friend of mine was at the pediatrician’s office when the doctor notices several bruises on her son. She tried to explain to the doctor that her son was rather exhuberant and always running and jumping all over the place. Her doctor was ready to call Child Services when her son took a flying leap off the examination table. The pediatrician finally believed her. Sometimes that’s not the case and some parents to abuse their children.
When he was little, my son was terribly allergic to mosquito bites. He would break out in hives, and his skin would really swell at the site of the bite. One time he was bit inside his ear canal. His ear swelled and he broke out in hives. We took him to an urgent care center because we feared the excessive swelling in the ear might cause more permanent damage.
Our family doctor later called me to tell me to never go to that place again. Unknown to me, the urgent care doctor reported us, assuming my husband boxed his ears. She stopped the investigation in it’s tracks by explaining my son’s history of hives and excessive swelling at the site of bug bites. The fact that my son had systemic hives helped. Also, within 24 hours, his ear was completely normal looking again, so the Urgent Care doctor looked pretty dumb.