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raging with this doctor!!

141 replies

Brokentopieces · 30/03/2015 17:57

dd aged 6 had an accident about 40 mins ago. She cut her leg on a jug which broke in the bath. I quickly rang my dad, threw some clothes on her and my dad drove us to the doctors because I had to hold her on my knee as she as still bleeding, crying etc. So we got to the doctors and there was a woman coming out as we went in, dd was wrapped in a blanket and towel with blood coming through. when I got to reception the nurse said the doctor had just left and wouldn't be back so I would have to wait until the out of hours service for the area opened in 30 mins, she looked at her leg and said he would probably need stiches, so i'm now waiting for out of hours to open but I could waiting a couple of hours to be seen. Luckily the bleeding has stopped and dd is watching tv happily but I am fuming.
This doctor is filling in for the local doctor who is on holidays, i'm just shocked she would walk past a child she could see was hurt, bleeding etc.

OP posts:
arethereanyleftatall · 30/03/2015 19:04

I would suggest you redo a first aid course. On a regular basis if that's what you require. You should have applied pressure to the wound, stopped the bleeding, stopped the panicking, and then driven to minor injuries with your dd strapped in her car seat.
Meningitis and a cut aren't really comparable.
Hope your dd gets sorted soon.

BeaufortBelle · 30/03/2015 19:09

I hope your little girl is better soon.

I can understand that things might be different in Ireland. When I was a little girl, my parents took me to the GP when I had an accident and pulled a lump of flesh out of my knee. The GP cleaned it and stitched it.

steff13 · 30/03/2015 19:10

Why was there a breakable (glass?) jug in the bath? possibly missing the point

WipsGlitter · 30/03/2015 19:20

YABU

How do you know it was the doctor you saw leaving?
You should have gone to A&E anyway - clue is in the title.

VanitasVanitatum · 30/03/2015 19:20

I would seriously not have breakables in the bath again, that is so dangerous.

stating the obvious now I imagine as the accident has already happened, but it's really worth saying!

Stillwishihadabs · 30/03/2015 19:26

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VanitasVanitatum · 30/03/2015 19:28

I've heard of a gp do that before, I'd it's the quickest way it's better than waiting for an ambulance.

VanitasVanitatum · 30/03/2015 19:28

*if

msgrinch · 30/03/2015 19:28

yabu.

I'd be directing the anger at the genius who put a breakable jug in a bath with a child.

Stillwishihadabs · 30/03/2015 19:31

But the child could die on route from septic shock !!! suppose they had a fit ? or vomited and lost consiousness ? which could easily happen in meningitis. Ambulances are equipped to deal with those eventualities.

Boofy27 · 30/03/2015 19:42

Stillwish! I live in rural Ireland and I can promise you that this happens. We have one ambulance that coves a massive geographical area and it wouldn't be unknown for the ambulance to be an hour away and then have over an hour's drive to the nearest hospital that could treat a serious condition.

Incidentally, I've also see a GP here give a patient a life home after his consultation. No emergency involved, just an old fellow who needed a lift and a compassionate GP.

Honestly, it's like another world.

CressidaCrisis · 30/03/2015 19:42

YABU
she also mentioned something about a nursing home so maybe that's where she was going to
She could have been going to a dying patient! Hope your DD is ok.

Boofy27 · 30/03/2015 19:43

*a lift home.

TheCraicDealer · 30/03/2015 19:44

Assuming OP is in her late twenties or early thirties, it may well have been more sensible for the GP to take her during her childhood illness. Rural areas in Ireland generally have poor road links, and there wasn't a whole pile of money knocking about pre-Celtic tiger to improve them or buy more ambulances to be fair.

RitaOrange · 30/03/2015 19:47

Boofy it sounds all so lovely but in reality peoples lives are at risk !

Stillwishihadabs · 30/03/2015 19:51

Once again I realise how southeastentric I am ambulances need to respond in (I think) 9 minutes.

Stillwishihadabs · 30/03/2015 19:53

Which is one of the great things about mumsnet.

Boofy27 · 30/03/2015 19:55

Rita, it's not able being lovely, the are presented with a medical emergency where someone will certainly die without treatment, so they transfer them in the quickest way available. Sometimes an ambulance will be sent from the city to meet them on route but there are times when that wouldn't be available either.

When you don't have a fully functioning hospital within 70 miles with most of that coved by single track roads, they do the best they can and mostly we get excellent medical care, as evidenced by the OP's shock, we're just not used to a medic walking past a sick child.

Stillwishihadabs · 30/03/2015 19:59

Boofy I can't square excellent medical care with not being able to get an ambulance out to an emergency.

RitaOrange · 30/03/2015 19:59

It sounds horrendous Boofy
I was being sarcastic when I said it sounds lovely - it doesn't.
I couldn't give a shit how nice my GP was if my DC needed emergency care NOW- if the OPs child had severed an artery for example.
I cant believe this is happening in this day and age tbh.

FireCanal · 30/03/2015 20:02

She hasn't severed an artery though Confused

TheFairyCaravan · 30/03/2015 20:07

If the OP's child had severed an artery she would have known about it and called an ambulance!

Boofy27 · 30/03/2015 20:10

I feel much safer and better cared for here than I ever did in London.

RitaOrange · 30/03/2015 20:10

No she hadn't - but if she had there would have been a genuine emergency.
If it was as bad as the OP is saying she would have gone straight to ED and not composed a thread on AIBU !

Stillwishihadabs · 30/03/2015 20:14

Well Boofy takes all sorts. I like living in the shadow of a teaching hospital personally, but that's just me.