to think that i didnt "decline" antibiotics at all and they could have noted this

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I was at the hospital today for a blood pressure check (36 weeks pregnant), they think i have a urine infection so wanted to give me antibiotics BUT it was 10am and they said i would have to go back to the hospital at 4-5pm to pick up the prescription because no doctor was around until the to do it. The only way i can get to the hospital is by taxi (no buses and even if there were i dont feel well enough to go on a bus at the moment) DH is working so i cant send him.going back today would have cost me £35 in taxis for today. I said i had a gp appointment monday so i would get them then as i have spent a fortune on taxis gogin there - roughly £40-50 a week the last month.

But now in big letter in my notes it says i have declies antibiotics despite having the risks to myself and baby explained to me and makes me sound really well difficult.
I know it doesnt matter but its bothered me why not just say that they could get a doctor until 5 and i couldnt go back rather than makign me sound like an uncaring cow?!

AIBU to think that there was no need for that comment on my notes?

YANBU. You're quite entitled to write your own version underneath though. I'd write something simple like 'antibiotics NOT declined. Hospital unable to provide them until 5pm and I am unable to collect them at this time. GP appointment arranged for 6/2/12'

If they are handwritten notes I would simply amend them.

YANBU as it's inaccurate and I'd play merry hell about it because it sounds like they're trying to push the consequences of their not having anyone to sort a prescription out, onto you.

YANBU. But if you need antibiotics, can you visit your GP? I had urine infection which started preterm labour. Antibiotics from the GP, and everything calmed down and I had lovely normal births at 38 weeks.

YANBU, but if you need antibiotics, you need them. I would ring and get an out of hours GP appointment and get the antibiotics today.

But you did decline them - you refused to go back and collect the prescription. I know, and you know, that people have a life and there is a world outside the hospital, and you quite possibly had various other things to do that day, and weren't prepared to return or sit there for six hours, but to them, you should have. I wonder if, if you'd said "oh well I'll just wait here until then, what's for lunch?" they'd have found a doctor sooner. Surely they can't run a department in a hospital with no doctors on duty until 4pm? Any doctor could have written that precription so they were beng arsey. Just amend your notes yourself, and add "entire staff of antenatal ward unable to locate a doctor to write a prescription".

Just write 'attended 10am appointment and advised I needed antibiotics but was declined a prescription until 5pm. Decided to obtain from GP surgery instead.'

they didn't have one doctor in the whole hospital available until 5pm ?

that is shit

the staff could have commandeered any doctor to put his signature on that form, or they could have faxed a request through to your GP and you could have picked it up from there

that is shocking treatment and you are not BU

I dont know the place was deserted!. The midwife said that the doctor was in theatre and there would be no prescription until 5. I have had aparenty in this pregnancy 33 - yes 33, samples sent off because they had blood in but each time they come back as inconclusive so its not a new thing. I am going to the gp monday anyway for more blood pressure tablets and also i now aparetly need iron. I might write a comment on the notes.

Pombear normally they are pretty good but today it was really scarily queit just one midwife, no other patients. So not sure what was going on!

YANBU. I've amended my notes recently as the mw wote down that I declined a test for gestational diabetes due to 'prior commitments'. I didn't decline, just told her I couldn't make it to the hospital first thing in the morning with less than 24 hours notice for a 2 hour appointment as both me & my DH work & we have 2 children to get to school.
The only reason I apparently needed the test was because of a small amount of sugar in my urine - my own fault as I had some fruit juice before my appt - the mw agreed that was probably the reason & a subsequent test confirmed all is well.
I've got into the habit of going through my notes with a fine tooth comb & noting anything different to what the mw has told me, I would do the same if I were you.