Idiots at the ER

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My daughter and I had a meeting at the school Thursday afternoon about my grandson's behavior over the last month. He isn't doing his work and is causing disruption in class. The teacher is not sure what to do with him since he won't work and she actually had to call in someone to help her with him the other day because he was acting out so badly. To explain to those who read this and are unaware. My grandson is ten years old and has ODD which means he is oppistional,defiant even to the point of aggressive behavior and alot of anger is involved. We have had to call the police because of his outbursts even to the point of charging him with physical abuse on his mother. He is going to court March 22 on this charge. So we are in this school meeting with the teacher, social worker, counselor,psychologist and the principal. The psychologist comes up with this idea to have him admitted to the Pscych ward at the hospital to be evaluated, get a better diagnosis etc. My daughter and I thought this might be a good idea. They would keep him for 3-5 days. So she called the psychiatrist the school used to evaluate my grandson back in April 2012 when they were deciding if this Excell class he is in now would be a good idea for him or not. She(Dr. Germaine) gave the psychologist a list of things to tell the ER people and told her to have us take him there, explain what we needed, and she would call ahead and let them know what the plan was. The Dr. also said that the things he is displaying lately is not something he would do if he was any of the things he was previously diagnosed to have. LOVELY! We sat in the ER room for about ten minutes and then was called right back to a room. An attendant took our information again and I gave them all that paper work we had taken with us and that Lena had copied for us. And told them again that Dr. Germaine was going to call and explain so they'd know why we were there and what needed to be done. They took his vitals, had him do a urine specimen and even took blood. The attendant said the social worker would come in soon and then the doctor would be around to talk to us. After about two hours a social worker came in and ask Josh alot of questions and then us. Then we waited another hour or so and finally the social worker came back in again and asked what we had expected to receive there today. I explained for the fourth time and she said that nothing on the list (one that the psychologist and written for us and that was supposedly nearly verbatim what Dr. G had told her over the phone) was anything they could admit him for. Pretty soon the doctor came in and he explained that this was an ER and they didn't do those things there. (I wanted to slap him). So I explained that we were there at the direction of Dr. Germaine. He looked at me with a dumb look on his face as if to say "OH!" So he goes out of the room as if to get ahold of the Dr. We were also told by some other lady that Dr. Germaine was not on call tonight so she didn't have to return their phone call. I explained that the Dr. was supposed to have called over to the ER ahead of us to let them know what was going on. This lady also told me that she had spoken to Dr.Germaine earlier about another patient and she had not mentained Josh at all then. So we got our discharge papers, signed them and left. What a waste of time! They have directed us to get ahold of my grandson's meds doctor and go from there. So I guess we will get a referral from him and see a psychiatrist and see about getting a better diagnosis. So today I get an email from the psychologist saying she had called Dr. G to see what had happened. Dr. G told her that the social worker had felt this was just a school issue and not something going on at home also. (Even though I had told them about his beating his mother with a plastic rod in August and that he is going to Juvenile Court March 22. And I had told her about the bad anger fits he throws) I told her that wasn't true and what I just wrote here. I am so angry!! We took with us an inch thick pile of papers that the PSR worker had sent to the Psychologist. Also the paper with the list of things we were to tell them at ER that the psychologist had written down that was verbatim what Dr G had said. So I guess she hadn't read any of that. I wonder if any of them did. Looking back they didn't seem to be working together at all. What a waste of 31/2 hours! We were all so exhausted and mad when we left there we got a quick burger and went home and went to bed. I couldn't sleep and finally had to take a sleeping pill. So now we have to hope we can get in next week to see the meds doc, get a referral to a psychiatrist and hope we can get in before the end of the world as we know it. Sometimes they are very backed up. How was your Thursday and Friday?