Do you sometimes second-guess doctors & nurses?

[folione]

My son with CF is 5 and has been in the hospital 4 times. During the course of those hospitalizations, our unrelenting questioning of pretty much everything has prevented medical mistakes twice and detected a mix-up where he was given an IV medicine belonging to the kid in the room next door.

Hospitals are complicated places and anybody who thinks a medical degree somehow makes a person perfect is dangerously wrong. I do not see it as "second-guessing" - just as a necessary part of the patient-doctor dialogue that leads to the best possible care.

 

[folione]

My son with CF is 5 and has been in the hospital 4 times. During the course of those hospitalizations, our unrelenting questioning of pretty much everything has prevented medical mistakes twice and detected a mix-up where he was given an IV medicine belonging to the kid in the room next door.

Hospitals are complicated places and anybody who thinks a medical degree somehow makes a person perfect is dangerously wrong. I do not see it as "second-guessing" - just as a necessary part of the patient-doctor dialogue that leads to the best possible care.

 

[folione]

My son with CF is 5 and has been in the hospital 4 times. During the course of those hospitalizations, our unrelenting questioning of pretty much everything has prevented medical mistakes twice and detected a mix-up where he was given an IV medicine belonging to the kid in the room next door.

Hospitals are complicated places and anybody who thinks a medical degree somehow makes a person perfect is dangerously wrong. I do not see it as "second-guessing" - just as a necessary part of the patient-doctor dialogue that leads to the best possible care.

 

[folione]

My son with CF is 5 and has been in the hospital 4 times. During the course of those hospitalizations, our unrelenting questioning of pretty much everything has prevented medical mistakes twice and detected a mix-up where he was given an IV medicine belonging to the kid in the room next door.

Hospitals are complicated places and anybody who thinks a medical degree somehow makes a person perfect is dangerously wrong. I do not see it as "second-guessing" - just as a necessary part of the patient-doctor dialogue that leads to the best possible care.

 

[folione]

My son with CF is 5 and has been in the hospital 4 times. During the course of those hospitalizations, our unrelenting questioning of pretty much everything has prevented medical mistakes twice and detected a mix-up where he was given an IV medicine belonging to the kid in the room next door.
<br />
<br />Hospitals are complicated places and anybody who thinks a medical degree somehow makes a person perfect is dangerously wrong. I do not see it as "second-guessing" - just as a necessary part of the patient-doctor dialogue that leads to the best possible care.

 

[JORDYSMOM]

Obviously the person who made that comment has never had to deal with a serious illness. I wonder if they ever watch the news. Every time you turn around there's a story of someone dying, because some doctor or nurse gave them the wrong meds or the wrong dose. That comment made that person look very ignorant.

Stacey

 

[JORDYSMOM]

Obviously the person who made that comment has never had to deal with a serious illness. I wonder if they ever watch the news. Every time you turn around there's a story of someone dying, because some doctor or nurse gave them the wrong meds or the wrong dose. That comment made that person look very ignorant.

Stacey

 

[JORDYSMOM]

Obviously the person who made that comment has never had to deal with a serious illness. I wonder if they ever watch the news. Every time you turn around there's a story of someone dying, because some doctor or nurse gave them the wrong meds or the wrong dose. That comment made that person look very ignorant.

Stacey

 

[JORDYSMOM]

Obviously the person who made that comment has never had to deal with a serious illness. I wonder if they ever watch the news. Every time you turn around there's a story of someone dying, because some doctor or nurse gave them the wrong meds or the wrong dose. That comment made that person look very ignorant.

Stacey

 

[JORDYSMOM]

Obviously the person who made that comment has never had to deal with a serious illness. I wonder if they ever watch the news. Every time you turn around there's a story of someone dying, because some doctor or nurse gave them the wrong meds or the wrong dose. That comment made that person look very ignorant.
<br />
<br />Stacey

 

[Aspiemom]

You are only being your own best advocate, which everyone should be. I've had quite a few drs tell me that they wish all of their patients were as knowledgeable as I was and didn't just blindly follow everything a dr and/or nurse told me.

Good for you!

 

[Aspiemom]

You are only being your own best advocate, which everyone should be. I've had quite a few drs tell me that they wish all of their patients were as knowledgeable as I was and didn't just blindly follow everything a dr and/or nurse told me.

Good for you!

 

[Aspiemom]

You are only being your own best advocate, which everyone should be. I've had quite a few drs tell me that they wish all of their patients were as knowledgeable as I was and didn't just blindly follow everything a dr and/or nurse told me.

Good for you!

 

[Aspiemom]

You are only being your own best advocate, which everyone should be. I've had quite a few drs tell me that they wish all of their patients were as knowledgeable as I was and didn't just blindly follow everything a dr and/or nurse told me.

Good for you!

 

[Aspiemom]

You are only being your own best advocate, which everyone should be. I've had quite a few drs tell me that they wish all of their patients were as knowledgeable as I was and didn't just blindly follow everything a dr and/or nurse told me.
<br />
<br />Good for you!

 

[JennyCoulon]

Being a parent of two boys with CF I do double guess the doctors and nurses b/c I feel that I see them everyday, and take care of them so I probably know them better.

I can tell you truthfully in the beginning I didn't double guess them b/c CF was so new to me that I didn't really know to. My youngest was put on an antibotic for I think strep when he was just a baby. I questioned the dose b/c to me it seemed like a lot for just a small guy. I even checked with my cousin who is a pharmacist and come to find out the nurse practioner that called the prescription in had the wrong mg's.

Another instance with this same NP just happened last week. I took my kids into their 3 month check up and called to get their sputum culture results. I was told that my oldest had gone some kind of Staph but that he had grown it in the past and they wouldn't treat unless he had symptoms. I was never aware that my oldest had ever grown anything. I was always told that it was youngest who grew this steph. When I talked to the "good" nurse and told her this, she was very suprised. I asked her to mark in both charts that I did't want "bad" NP to call with sputum culture results anymore b/c she gets them mixed up.

I always second guess now especially since that NP is still working in the clinic. I heard from other people that have dealt with her that she did wrong dosing for transplant patients which can be very deadly.

You know yourself and your child more than anyone else.

 

[JennyCoulon]

Being a parent of two boys with CF I do double guess the doctors and nurses b/c I feel that I see them everyday, and take care of them so I probably know them better.

I can tell you truthfully in the beginning I didn't double guess them b/c CF was so new to me that I didn't really know to. My youngest was put on an antibotic for I think strep when he was just a baby. I questioned the dose b/c to me it seemed like a lot for just a small guy. I even checked with my cousin who is a pharmacist and come to find out the nurse practioner that called the prescription in had the wrong mg's.

Another instance with this same NP just happened last week. I took my kids into their 3 month check up and called to get their sputum culture results. I was told that my oldest had gone some kind of Staph but that he had grown it in the past and they wouldn't treat unless he had symptoms. I was never aware that my oldest had ever grown anything. I was always told that it was youngest who grew this steph. When I talked to the "good" nurse and told her this, she was very suprised. I asked her to mark in both charts that I did't want "bad" NP to call with sputum culture results anymore b/c she gets them mixed up.

I always second guess now especially since that NP is still working in the clinic. I heard from other people that have dealt with her that she did wrong dosing for transplant patients which can be very deadly.

You know yourself and your child more than anyone else.

 

[JennyCoulon]

Being a parent of two boys with CF I do double guess the doctors and nurses b/c I feel that I see them everyday, and take care of them so I probably know them better.

I can tell you truthfully in the beginning I didn't double guess them b/c CF was so new to me that I didn't really know to. My youngest was put on an antibotic for I think strep when he was just a baby. I questioned the dose b/c to me it seemed like a lot for just a small guy. I even checked with my cousin who is a pharmacist and come to find out the nurse practioner that called the prescription in had the wrong mg's.

Another instance with this same NP just happened last week. I took my kids into their 3 month check up and called to get their sputum culture results. I was told that my oldest had gone some kind of Staph but that he had grown it in the past and they wouldn't treat unless he had symptoms. I was never aware that my oldest had ever grown anything. I was always told that it was youngest who grew this steph. When I talked to the "good" nurse and told her this, she was very suprised. I asked her to mark in both charts that I did't want "bad" NP to call with sputum culture results anymore b/c she gets them mixed up.

I always second guess now especially since that NP is still working in the clinic. I heard from other people that have dealt with her that she did wrong dosing for transplant patients which can be very deadly.

You know yourself and your child more than anyone else.

 

[JennyCoulon]

Being a parent of two boys with CF I do double guess the doctors and nurses b/c I feel that I see them everyday, and take care of them so I probably know them better.

I can tell you truthfully in the beginning I didn't double guess them b/c CF was so new to me that I didn't really know to. My youngest was put on an antibotic for I think strep when he was just a baby. I questioned the dose b/c to me it seemed like a lot for just a small guy. I even checked with my cousin who is a pharmacist and come to find out the nurse practioner that called the prescription in had the wrong mg's.

Another instance with this same NP just happened last week. I took my kids into their 3 month check up and called to get their sputum culture results. I was told that my oldest had gone some kind of Staph but that he had grown it in the past and they wouldn't treat unless he had symptoms. I was never aware that my oldest had ever grown anything. I was always told that it was youngest who grew this steph. When I talked to the "good" nurse and told her this, she was very suprised. I asked her to mark in both charts that I did't want "bad" NP to call with sputum culture results anymore b/c she gets them mixed up.

I always second guess now especially since that NP is still working in the clinic. I heard from other people that have dealt with her that she did wrong dosing for transplant patients which can be very deadly.

You know yourself and your child more than anyone else.

 

[JennyCoulon]

Being a parent of two boys with CF I do double guess the doctors and nurses b/c I feel that I see them everyday, and take care of them so I probably know them better.
<br />
<br />I can tell you truthfully in the beginning I didn't double guess them b/c CF was so new to me that I didn't really know to. My youngest was put on an antibotic for I think strep when he was just a baby. I questioned the dose b/c to me it seemed like a lot for just a small guy. I even checked with my cousin who is a pharmacist and come to find out the nurse practioner that called the prescription in had the wrong mg's.
<br />
<br />Another instance with this same NP just happened last week. I took my kids into their 3 month check up and called to get their sputum culture results. I was told that my oldest had gone some kind of Staph but that he had grown it in the past and they wouldn't treat unless he had symptoms. I was never aware that my oldest had ever grown anything. I was always told that it was youngest who grew this steph. When I talked to the "good" nurse and told her this, she was very suprised. I asked her to mark in both charts that I did't want "bad" NP to call with sputum culture results anymore b/c she gets them mixed up.
<br />
<br />I always second guess now especially since that NP is still working in the clinic. I heard from other people that have dealt with her that she did wrong dosing for transplant patients which can be very deadly.
<br />
<br />You know yourself and your child more than anyone else.