About three weeks' ago I was in e/mail contact with ds's consultant to discuss what the pediatric radiologist had said about his x-rays. The consultant wrote to me then that the radiologist wanted more x-rays and that she would order those next time she saw me - which was supposed to be today.
Turn up at the hospital today - consultant not there, different doctor sees me, who knows nothing about the case, there's nothing about further x-rays in the notes and the pediatric radiologist is not available either.
So a complete and utter fing waste of time to even go to the hospital today. The doctor I saw today was mildly embarrassed and will try and find out for me what is happening, but I am SO angry - why does nobody care????? At this point in time I really, really wish I was living in Germany where all this would be impossible - and where, if I had complaints about things, I could just choose to see a different doctor/go to a different hospital.
I am just so ped off. The doctors here seem to take the approach that as ds is doing well there's no need to rush to get a diagnosis. But I want to know!!!! And I think they should make an effort to find a diagnosis, because it has impllications for ds's long-term care, for what growth charts he should be measured by, for what other specialists he might have to see in the future...