Sqad Are You There Please.? I Could Really Do With Some Help Please...........

lilacben | 13:59 Wed 19th Jun 2013 | Health & Fitness

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Last night my granddaugther, 10, was admitted to hospital. it seemed she had an appendicitis, they operated and found it hadnt burst, as they thought it had. so did keyhope surgery and removed it. This morning she is still in pain.....they now say she has an infection? so have taken bloods and chest x ray.? In you opinon what may be going on.? Many thanks Brenda xx

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While some might say "Thou fussed too much" and others have already suggested restricting yourself to those assigned to the treatment of your granddaughter, I would suggest there is good reason for seeking opinions from elsewhere and even being mistrusting of what you see and are told. Sadly, I could reel off many stories of people I know (most of them now deceased) who were misdiagnosed (varying degree of seriousness, one or two spectacularly) and consequently subjected to inappropriate treatment. Several of those who are now dead died prematurely as a direct result of the "mistake". I believe there is a book somewhere, the title of which asserts that you are likely to be killed by your doctor, written by a doctor. Apparently all doctors in Japan went on a rather lengthy strike some years back and during that period there was a significant drop in the incidence of deaths (overall).

I have been misdiagnosed and for a month put up with GP treatment which had no effect whatsoever, and I mistrusted, thereafter followed by a specialist explanation. I was told I had a congenital abnormality of a sort which I found tragi-comical due to the implications for the state of medical conduct (based on my opinion of what was wrong). I then put up with things (no treatment, no improvement) for more than a year but finally ended up having to insist that what I was experiencing was something else. The stir I raised caused someone to actually listen to my description of symptoms and my postulated cause. That doctor instantly came out with the name of the condition and the appropriate investigation confirmed it. Every symptom I had described, plus as few others I had but did not mention, were those of the classic and relatively common malaise. I now believe the underlying reason for the specialist misdiagnosis was to buy time - the solution is an operation which I declined to have. The condition is non-lethal (pharyngeal pouch) and I have learned to manage it to the point where by now it causes me minimal problems.

We would be pretty unhappy if car mechanics had the same rate of "mistakes" as medics do and if civil engineers were similarly incompetent then there would be structures collapsing on a daily basis. A suggestion I have heard is that medics are too hasty and bordering on careless due to work overload - in several of the cases I referred to, that is not a realistic explanation. Also (alarmingly widely) mentioned is that the fundamental problem is an above average level (within that profession) of arrogance. It is a sad and unsatisfactory situation. That said, some of our best friends are (medical) doctors.