A hospital error but, is this the way to go?

Hiya Wizzy, If that was my child I would have taken her elsewhere for a second opinion. Which I was often forced to do and not because I wanted to. Once I fell in the playground and fell flat onto my right hand. At first it did not hurt that much by next Day and a sleepless night through the pain I was taken to the local Hospital. The Doctor grabbed my wrist and the tears sprang to my eyes. He said surely it can´t hurt that much. Okay and X-ray I´m sure there´s nothing wrong. So they did an x-ray and I had the whole bone and tendon of my thumb out of place way out of place. So you see those things happen. But like you say it´s just a genuine mistake on their behalf and it happens many times even in the best of Hospitals. A Doctor caused my eldest Son to become intoxicated with an overdose of injections he gave me for his Bronchitis. He became sick could not keep food down and lost weight. So in the end after about two weeks of going back to the Hospital time and time again because I was getting a bit frantic and the bad treatment they were giving me for insisting so much. So they sent me to a specialist but for that I had to go back to the same Doctor that had started all this off. Well I won´t say what happened after there was a bit of a to do just because I had gone back again. Undaunted I strolled through the Door of his Surgery and I said I was not going out till he wrote me out a form for a blood analysis. Unwillingly and still saying there was nothing wrong with my Son who was still being sick and losing weight he gave me the form to go the same Day to the Hospital. I still had to wait another heart wrenching week because in all this time I had very little sleep at any time and I was worn out trying to get him to eat and drink water and keep him down him. Eventually when I went back for the result of the analysis he just told me that he had been intoxicated by an overdose of Antibiotics in the injections. The injections that were given to him were way too strong for his age. On top of that he just shrugged his shoulders and I was to say the least a bit gobsmacked as they offered no apology or any further treatment or even to say how long the symptoms would last nothing. Do you think I should have made a complaint? If I had felt strong enough maybe I would. But it would not have got me anywhere and I was so relieved that my Son was alive and would be okay. He did get over it but only with my persistence. From then on it made me very wary of Doctors specially the Children´s ones that you put the whole of your faith in.

I think it is a shame that it happened but mistakes do happen. I would have gone to the doctor sooner. The medical personnel can only do so much with what you tell them...

of course normally the mother will get angry because she thinks that that hospital is not doing proper treatment for clients. but depending on the reason if those incharge during those times mis interpreted something or did miss anything. if not, then they should be sued.

I do think the mother should have gone to a bigger and a better hospital. Since this case happened in the UK, money problems would not have been any concern. A delay in treatment of one week could threaten the life of a patient. I am a Medical Technologist by profession and once aspired to become a doctor. I know what happens inside a hospital, there are so many cases that are hidden from the people's eyes. One hospital personnel's opinion can vary greatly from another one's opinion although they work in the same field. So a second opinion is always important, especially if you have a doubt.