We got to take our daughter into the hospital an infection that wasn't an emergency when we went to the doctor, but it became an emergency because the doctor sent us to the wrong place. I think that it's probably time to get a new doctor when:
- Your doctor doesn't know how to get the correct referral.
- Your doctor doesn't know that a child can only be seen at a Children's hospital in Minnesota.
- Your doctor doesn't say she doesn't know.
- Your doctor feels that excessive drooling is a differential/unique symptom to a problem in a child that's teething.
So, yeah....
We set out in the morning to get our daughter checked out for a small problem, but the doctor dilly dallied about so much that it became an ER visit at the end of the evening.
Needless to say, I have a lot of comments about the failure of the Allina medical system to help us out. I also have to say that my experience at the ghetto hospital has proven to be everything I expected, with the exception of the fact that there was no room for nursing down in the ER.
THIS IS A CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.
Do you think, maybe, PERHAPS, there might be nursing mothers?!?
Alas, I will have to gather my thoughts on these excessive failures and collect them into something more intelligible.
In the meantime, kiss your kids and be grateful that you don't have to have a baby with an IV.
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