by tipper » Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:10 pm
set rant on/
righto, what is giving me the right royal shits at the moment is doctors (no offence to the medical staff amongst us) but it is for a very specific reason.
every time my two kids have gotten sick over the last nearly 5 years (oldest junior tipper turns 5 in just under a month) and we take them to the doctor they check them out and pronounce "cant see anything wrong, its probably viral, bed rest and if they still have a temperature in 2 days bring them back"......
we are not the type of parents to bring them to the doctor when they have a singular cough, or a slightly runny nose. if we take them to the doctor it is because there is actually something wrong. My wife is in the medical profession, so we know what we are dealing with. yet every single time we have taken one of them in it is the above result. and every single time we have to put up with a sick kid for three ******* days (usually a day before we go in, as i said, we dont rush them down at the drop of a hat), so we can take them back and find that miraculously they now have an infection in (insert body part here) and here's a script for antibiotics.......
look at our ******* records, every visit is with the same practice, one which 4 ******* generations of my family use. surely you can see by looking at it that is the pattern. we dont bring them in for nothing, they are actually sick. no one in my family are hypochondriacs. we have taken so many days off work ourselves to look after them (day care wont take them when they are sick), had uncounted sleepless nights looking after them, and all could have been avoided if we were given ******* treatment on the first visit. a few weeks ago it was with the boy. tuesday it was "must be a virus"... which by thursday had turned into "bilateral ear infections"......
im left feeling that it is a rort to just get more money out of us/medicare at the expense of my kids (and others) health. so ******* glad that it wasnt me with my daughter getting told that today (grandma stepped up and took her thankfully), i doubt i would have been welcome back in the practice again after i told them what i felt about yet another diagnosis of "virus"... guarantee ill be back there on monday with a full blown ...somethng... infection.
**** it, in future ill just take her to the emergency dept of the womens and childrens, tell them she has a temperature and a rash, i hear that gets bumped right up the priority list.......
set rant off/
if anyone knows a good practice in the northern suburbs please let me know. ive had enough