I took my young daughter to a&e after a fall. Doctor completely dismissed the amount of pain my daughter was in, kept telling me there was nothing wrong other than a pulled muscle. Asked them numerous times for an X-ray and finally when I requested another doctor they agreed.
Made my child very uncomfortable by getting into her face demanding she let him touch her arm but then repeated it was just muscle and they didn’t need to feel it.
X-ray was finally completed, doctor came back round and told me she had chipped a bone in her shoulder and stuck a poorly fitted sling on her and told me to await a call from the fracture clinic. Had no response from the virtual fracture clinic within the last 10 days.
Took her to a different minor injuries unit who looked at the first and only X-ray she had and were able to tell me straight away she has been walking around for 10 days in pain, with a fractured elbow. She is now fully casted from her hand up to her shoulder.
"Completely dismissed the amount of pain she was in"
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