Nicole Price

Review of Hamot Health Systems

I took my two year old here yesterday. We were in ...

I took my two year old here yesterday. We were in Erie visiting splash lagoon and he got sick. I am from NY. My son started puking and it continued for two hours, this hospital was recommended by hotel staff, so we came here. Dr Risavi was my son s attending physician. I told the dr that my 8 year old son was recently diagnosed with strep throat and didn t present with any of the typical symptoms, and that that was my concern now with my 2 year old. The dr seemed to ignore this and focused more on it being viral. He said there is a lot of this going around and many kids have been in today with it. The dr didn t even LOOK at my sons throat because after asking my two year old to open his mouth and he wouldn t, that ended it. Now, I should ve MADE them do a strep test, I didn t. I was given a popsicle to see if my son would get it down. It s 1am and all he wants to do is sleep. After 3.5 hours, I asked to leave and they let us leave as nothing more was being done. I went home and went to his pediatrician the next morning. Even though he didn t present with symptoms of strep, they checked him per my request- YES he has it. Drs need to LISTEN and not lump everyone into the same categories!!!!!!!!!!