I just found out my cousins 5 week old baby is having surgery right now for a problem with his intestine, he has not pooped in 2 weeks and keep vomiting, she took him to her ped a few times and kept getting sent home with nothings wrong with the baby, after it being obvious the baby wasn't getting any better, she took him to the ped once more and was told he was fine and she took him to our childrens hospital earlier today and they rushed him for surgery! He is backed up, his intestine I think is what My mom just told me was twisted and closed off, that poor baby!!:cry:
My cousin is a young mom but she's not dumb like this dr office seemed to think, this is her second child, her odler one is 3, I think she needs to report that dr and office to the medical board, what else can she do, her baby could have died if she didn't go with her mama instinct to get him to another dr and now! That dr needs to have his medical license revoked!:banghead:
sarahrichardson
01-21-2009, 06:16 PM
i would report it! Prayers for them
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chasesfrog
01-21-2009, 06:19 PM
Yes, definitely report him to the AMA or the state liscencing board!
Hope your cousin's baby does much better and recovers from the surgery quickly.
Sweet_Fantasy_Fox
01-21-2009, 06:21 PM
can you mama's post links to everywhere she can report this dr please, we are in California, Thanks.:goodvibes:
zenmama
01-21-2009, 06:24 PM
yeah sometimes it takes persistence to get dr's to really see you arent just being a paranoid nut.
I finally got a dr I trust who listens to me the first time now with dd.
olivesmommy
01-21-2009, 06:35 PM
On the other side of the coin.... :goodvibes:
I think it must be really hard to be a pediatrician. They probably get a gazillion calls a day. Most probably turn out to be nothing, but a few are really sick. But the babies can't talk and tell you where it hurts. And medicine isn't an exact science.
God bless pediatricians for their hard work. (Mine is great! If anyone is looking for one in Western Michigan, I'll refer you... :goodvibes: )
Bright_Life_Toys
01-21-2009, 06:43 PM
I'll send up thoughts and prayers for your cousin and her little baby. :hugs:
Roseplummer
01-21-2009, 07:23 PM
I am so sorry this is happening to the baby.:hugs:
My mom went through this with me only I was a bit older close to a year I think. She kept taking me to the dr. and he finally told her he didn't know what was wrong and that she needed to take me home and enjoy me while she could because I was going to die. She found a ride to a childrens hospital and they did emergency surgery to open up my intestines where they had flipped and sealed shut. I can say I have no longterm affects that I know of. And my mom said I healed really quickly. :goodvibes:
WhatWasIThinking
01-21-2009, 09:14 PM
Wow, same thing happened with my oldest son. His ped kept saying nothing was wrong so i took him to a different childrens hospital and they knew right away that he had pyloric stenosis and he had surgery the next day.
I am pretty sure nothing can be done. Thankfully the baby did get the help it needed!!!!!!
Minniebees
01-21-2009, 09:29 PM
On the other side of the coin.... :goodvibes:
I think it must be really hard to be a pediatrician. They probably get a gazillion calls a day. Most probably turn out to be nothing, but a few are really sick. But the babies can't talk and tell you where it hurts. And medicine isn't an exact science.
God bless pediatricians for their hard work. (Mine is great! If anyone is looking for one in Western Michigan, I'll refer you... :goodvibes: )
My dh is a Ped, and yeah, it's tough. Most parents bring their kids in when they aren't sick at all and act like they are on death's door. It's hard to sort them out, sometimes. And you won't believe how nasty parents can be when you won't give their one year old an adult dose of ADHD meds, for example. This kind of thing is why my dh is getting out of General Peds and going into intensive medicine.
The symptoms of pyloric stenosis are really hard to pin down. A lot of parents bring their infants in because they spit up. Almost all babies do, and so it's hard to know the difference between over-panicked parents and something that is actually wrong. It's a rare condition, and the symptoms can be easily explained as normal infant behavior.
The people that you complain to are the California Board of Medicine. They give out the medical license, and every Dr has to have a medical license to practice. They also handle the complaints. Also, she shoudl write a letter to her doc and let him know how she feels. Perhaps he will do some CME's on pyloric stenosis in the future to brush up. Most docs make mistakes and miss things, and good docs take it as an opportunity to further their education. However, if she goes in with guns blazing, he will probably just shrug her off, so it always pays to be nice and constructive. :2cents:
Honeymommy3
01-22-2009, 01:17 AM
I am so sorry this is happening to the baby.:hugs:
My mom went through this with me only I was a bit older close to a year I think. She kept taking me to the dr. and he finally told her he didn't know what was wrong and that she needed to take me home and enjoy me while she could because I was going to die. She found a ride to a childrens hospital and they did emergency surgery to open up my intestines where they had flipped and sealed shut. I can say I have no longterm affects that I know of. And my mom said I healed really quickly. :goodvibes:
:jawdrop: That is insane! Your poor mama. Good thing she had more sense than the dr.:giggle:
bjaneen
01-22-2009, 02:11 PM
Oh my!! I would def. report that doc!
MammaBx3!
01-22-2009, 03:11 PM
Ok, I have read the responses and am a little surprised by some of them. In what world do you get paid for not doing your job??? None I know of!
I would
1)report the doc to the licensing board of your state and
2) write the administrator of the practice involved, informing them that you would like all visits pertaining to this situation written off immediately and telling them to thank their stars that you had the good sense to go to another doc because that little fact saved their butts a big lawsuit. (Okay, leave that second part out unless they get nasty with you, but do write a nice note asking them to write off the visits. You should not have to pay for the visits where the doc did not actually do their job.)
Thread hijack-- I had this happen just yesterday, when the doc tried to convince me that our son's fast-spreading rash was a "localized allergic reaction". Whatever! 'Cause I haven't seen allergic reactions before, right? So today, when it now covers his whole body (spreading from the neck/face downward and itching), I'm thinking great, we could have the measles and that crummy doc wanted to talk about the nonexistent new "lotion" we must have used on his neck and face. Snort. I have trouble respecting medical professionals sometimes. Because they just can't admit when they're wrong and apologize for it, mostly. We've had every excuse across the board for wrong prescriptions, missed diagnosis, mixing up patient's info in charts, (once they actually conducted an entire prenatal visit on me, asking me a bunch of dumb questions and when they wanted me to get on the table for my Pap, I said "why would I do that?" And it came out that they had someone else's chart entirely and thought I was there for a routine exam. But that was my fault, too, because I didn't "Look" six months pregnant!). The thing is, they never just take responsibility. It's always due to overworking, someone else screwed up, "medicine isn't an exact science", yadda yadda. The time I had a doc stick an instrument THROUGH MY UTERUS, requiring surgery to fix it, that was also my fault, because "my uterus was abnormally small for being 8 weeks postpartum". Um, okay people. You guessed it-- we had to pay for the surgery to fix that too. Only now I'm older and wiser and would so have gotten a freakin' lawyer. Grrr... thanks for listening.
This situation is seriously scary, though, and should be addressed. That doc is in need of some continuing education, IMO. I hope everything works out well for them mama!
AnnaG01
01-22-2009, 03:17 PM
omgoodness that poor baby, has he had the rotateq vaccine lately? I know it's been known to cause blockages and twisting of the intestines. Prayers said for the lo.
Knutsonfam
01-22-2009, 04:00 PM
I am so sorry for your cousin and her lo. How frustrating and scary. I'm glad she didn't give up looking for answers. She was a good advocate for her child. I hope he has a speedy recovery.
