5 years ago
Took my 2 month old son to the ER because he was w...
Took my 2 month old son to the ER because he was wheezing. Doctor said he looked and sounded fine, but the chest X-ray showed bilateral pneumonia. He transferred us via ambulance to Cook Children s in FW. The doctor there took one look at the X-ray and said, This is blurry. He should not have been diagnosed from this. They retook the X-ray, and his lungs were clear. My 2 month old son had to get needless medical treatment that caused him unnecessary pain simply because the doctors here don t know how to read an X-ray and don t have the good sense to order a new X-ray if the one they have is blurry.
I called GRMC to dispute the part of our bill that was unnecessary- they claimed no fault. They said the X-ray clearly showed pneumonia, and they agreed that he needed to be transferred. I asked if they d talked to Cook Children s about that since they clearly disagreed, and they said no. Unbelievable that I had to pay a bill for a misdiagnosis, and the hospital takes absolutely no responsibility.
I will never go here again. It is a shame that I cannot trust our local hospital to be competent.