After waiting for 12 hours to see a doctor the "doctor" walked in - a young man with a thick eastern European accent - looked at some little pre-printed card he was carrying - and simply said ... "He needs to lose weight."
What opinion *am* I supposed to have after such an experience?
What was wrong with your son?
Why did you have to wait for 12 hours? Were there that many people in the ER?
That's really too bad. Although with severe stomach pain, an ER visit is appropriate, you should try to avoid taking a child to an ER; it's best to see a Pediatrician (unless the child is critically ill or has a traumatic injury).
Something similar happened to me but it was a US doctor. He killed my dad.
Complain to the state department of public health. You don't want to be the hospital after you do that.
About a year ago my 5yo son came down with a really nasty repiratory illness and had a terrible asthma attack. We took him to the closest place- a very 'nice, high-tech urgent care' so we could at least get a breathing treatment started. My husband had to carry him in because he couldn't get enough breath to walk on his own power. He was listless and white as a sheet when he checked him in. My husband then had to sit in the wating room with his son gasping for air in his arms while all kinds of trash went sauntering back for colds and sniffles. My husband finally went back up to the desk and said 'maybe you didn't understand me- my son cannot breathe' The lady looked very annoyed and said 'well, I guess we'll have to put you ahead of some of these other people, then' Yeah, I guess you will.
After getting the breathing treatment and the md determining that his blood oxygen was low enough for him to be transported by amublance to the hospital, he got there only to be put in a room (oxygen now removed) to wait 1&1/2 hours for anyone to even come ask why we were there. This is at one of the top children's hospitals in the country. He was subsequently admitted for a 4 day stay and trying to get discharged was like trying to make a prison break from Alcatraz. We had to go on a recon mission to find a doctor to discharge us 7 hours after they said we could go home.