After not having bothered to be at the follow-up appointment on Monday the consultant sent me an e/mail, which said this among other things:
"I was sorry to miss you and ds in clinic yesterday. It sounds as though in general he is doing well. Dr
x felt that he had quite a lot of upper respiratory noise, which could be misinterpreted as lower respiratory, and we are anxious that he is not over treated with antibiotics when he may just have a cold. It can be a difficult distinction."
Now ds has just had a course of antibiotics, prescribed by GP, for chest infection. And now this. I feel that this places a bit of a burden on my shoulders - what do they want me to do? How can I decide whether there's chest noise there or just upper respiratory noise? I just don't know what to do with this e/mail and I feel quite annoyed!