sunshineANDrainbowsg t1_je8kf8d wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:54 AM

Reply to comment by pdxscout in TIFU by tripping on shrooms and running naked to ask people to call 911 by ExistentialQ

When I was 10 I had appendicitis. After intense stomach pain all day my mom, a nurse, took me to the ER. The doctors also dismissed after a brief examination because I wasn’t crying and looked normal. Luckily my mom is stubborn and refused to leave, or I might have died.

Long story short dismissing based on lack of pain without proper tests can be dangerous.

pdxscout t1_je8ticj wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:45 AM

Yeah, absolutely. I also felt dismissed by my doctor.

Squigglepig52 t1_je9vfny wrote on March 30, 2023 at 1:56 PM

Well, did it turn out that you actually did have a torsion? Because, if you didn't, she was right.

Also - yeah, by that point, after an additional 6 hours waiting around, it would have been puking levels of pain.

pdxscout t1_je9yex3 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:17 PM

I did not. But that doesn't change that I felt dismissed.

Squigglepig52 t1_jeanf7z wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:07 PM

Because you were. Which is the outcome when you clearly don't have the issue you claim to have.

They don't have the time or energy, or resources, to coddle somebody who doesn't have an actual reason to be there.

You were taking up time and space that could have been used to treat somebody with an actual problem.