Originally Posted by Trollheart

The Irish Health System (yes that again!) is ridiculous!
Oh wait, I've said that before, haven't I? Bear with me.
One of my sister's carers brought her baby to the emergency room two nights ago, with a rash and itching which the doctor she had called out originally confirmed was shingles. He said better get him to hospital, so she did.

After many hours' waiting, the doctor at the hospital refuted the other doctor's diagnosis, said it was chickenpox. She told him no, her child had already had that. He stuck to his guns. Or maybe it was a she, not sure, doesn't matter.

Prescribed Calpol (baby medicine) and Nurofen (painkiller). She went back to her own doctor, who flipped! That isn't chickenpox he fumed, and putting the child on Nurofen would only aggravate the symptoms and make him worse!

How can one doctor not accept the opinion of another, ignore the very obvious fact that you can't get chickenpox twice, and then prescribe something that could do the child harm? Where's the professionalism? Even if they're tired (which they frequently are) or inexperienced, can't they take the opinion of a doctor who's not rushing around a hospital trying to do ten things at once and say, oh well he must be right?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.