Wendy Boring

Review of Primary Children's Medical Cen...

You may receive good care at Primary Children s ho...

You may receive good care at Primary Children s hospital, you may also receive very bad, destructive and traumatic care. You may think that the hospital is a safe place for a sick child, but that is not always true. When doctors misjudge a patient and are poor doctors they have the ability to do a great deal of harm. I had two experiences at Primary Children s hospital, one good and helpful, one horrendous and destructive. Please be aware that if you get the wrong doctor or the wrong team your visit could spiral into a disaster.

I had read the good and bad reviews, but I thought issues like in the bad reviews could not happen to me. I am a nice, middle class, Mormon mom. I am a model citizen and it happened to me and my sweet, smart, very sick daughter. If it can happen to us it can happen to you, please beware.

My daughter was admitted for treatment for a secondary complication of a bowel obstruction she had suffered from for many months. A diagnosis was made remotely using images from our local hospital. She went in for treatment. When we got there they decided she did not have the condition they had said she had and then they decided she was not sick at all and had never had a bowel obstruction and that she was just severely mentally ill. The gastroenterologist Dr. Wheeler disregarded all evidence and everything that had been done during previous visits and started taking me out of the room for meetings so that the behavioral health team could be alone to press my extremely sick, so weak that she can only lay in bed, daughter about any potential trauma or abuse that would back up their theory that she had conversion disorder. Which is an extremely rare disorder that my daughter had none of the symptoms of. The psychiatrist, Dr. Brewer came to my daughter s room and told her with no proof or evidence that she had conversion disorder. She googled it, ordered him out of the room and became so upset that her doctors did not believe her and thought that she was mentally ill that she had a psychological crisis, with residents being called to the bed side because she was being labeled as suicidal. I can not explain how awful it was, it was devastating, traumatic and it left a sick girl with no choice, but to go home without care. To make matters worse Dr. Brewer s office then called my daughter s counselor to tell her that my daughter had conversion disorder, no medical symptomology and that I was angry. We could not even leave the hospital to get away from their hurtful care. They called our care providers at home to continue the trauma. The counselor was immediately suspicious and we were able to sort everything out, but we were left totally unsure of what to do and how to care for my extremely ill daughter. Luckily for us, the medical community in our own home town rallied around my daughter, rose to the occasion and gave my daughter far superior medical care to any that she received at Primary Children s despite the fact, that they are not pediatric specialists. They have found us a new hospital that is willing to take my daughter and help her with treatment.

You have to know if you are going to Primary Children s hospital, something like this could happen to you. We did everything right, my daughter was a model patient and she given horrific, traumatic and damaging care.