ScottRadom
Shogun of Saskatchewan
So... had a bit of a scare with my baby daughter today. It\'s fine, and everything is gonna be okay she just had low iron. Our fault for feeding her too much milk apparently, but anyway.....
My wife takes my 18 month old daughter to the hospital ER. She did this at the urging of our nanny who hadn\'t seen her in a few days and was concerned about her color and her behavior. I just thought she was off because she\'s got like 4 molars coming in. Wife takes her in and the staff take some blood. They had to get it from the outer jugular so ton\'s of fun for Emerson (my daughter) as you can imagine.
After about an hour the preliminary test show extremely low iron and the discussion turns to our diet for her and the Doc decides firmly that we\'re feeding her too much milk. Yep, turns out we are. Milk inhibits the body\'s ability to absorb iron turns out. Didn\'t know that, but I was very worried when I heard low Iron, \'cause my baby girl eats an awesome amount of the very best Western Canadian Beef (cheap plug there!).
Our hospital is a learning hospital attached to our university. You tend to get a lot of med students practicing and such there. We\'re all for it, students have to learn in a practical environment. So after the Dr. had made the diagnosis, got a plan for us and everything was at a point I\'d call solved he asked my wife if it\'d be okay to run some students through the scenario. \"No problem\". Emerson was sleeping and they had to stay for observation for a 1/2 hr anyway.
In come the students.
Doc goes over the symptoms with thestudents and let\'s them take over.
One student thinks it may be a heart defect and thinks we should do some extensive tests including an MRI. Doesn\'t really ask my wife too many questions at all. Bad for that young lady, the Dr. was not impressed.
One student thinks that it is probably something minor and asks to do the tests the Dr. ordered himself to check iron levels and see what they indicate. He follows up by asking my wife some questions about the babies behaviour patterns, sleep patterns etc. and the Dr. looks very pleased. Well done for this guy.
Med student number three. Looks at my baby girls face and says \"Her face is asymetrical, and it looks like her eyes are pretty wide apart.\"
Seriously. That\'s his diagnosis. That\'s the future brainwave who hopes to one day be out in the world solving problems. The good news is that holding a sleeping baby keeps my wife from yelling or slapping the dude.
Apparently the Dr. took the student into the hall and gave him a good yelling. Thought it was kind of funny.
My wife takes my 18 month old daughter to the hospital ER. She did this at the urging of our nanny who hadn\'t seen her in a few days and was concerned about her color and her behavior. I just thought she was off because she\'s got like 4 molars coming in. Wife takes her in and the staff take some blood. They had to get it from the outer jugular so ton\'s of fun for Emerson (my daughter) as you can imagine.
After about an hour the preliminary test show extremely low iron and the discussion turns to our diet for her and the Doc decides firmly that we\'re feeding her too much milk. Yep, turns out we are. Milk inhibits the body\'s ability to absorb iron turns out. Didn\'t know that, but I was very worried when I heard low Iron, \'cause my baby girl eats an awesome amount of the very best Western Canadian Beef (cheap plug there!).
Our hospital is a learning hospital attached to our university. You tend to get a lot of med students practicing and such there. We\'re all for it, students have to learn in a practical environment. So after the Dr. had made the diagnosis, got a plan for us and everything was at a point I\'d call solved he asked my wife if it\'d be okay to run some students through the scenario. \"No problem\". Emerson was sleeping and they had to stay for observation for a 1/2 hr anyway.
In come the students.
Doc goes over the symptoms with thestudents and let\'s them take over.
One student thinks it may be a heart defect and thinks we should do some extensive tests including an MRI. Doesn\'t really ask my wife too many questions at all. Bad for that young lady, the Dr. was not impressed.
One student thinks that it is probably something minor and asks to do the tests the Dr. ordered himself to check iron levels and see what they indicate. He follows up by asking my wife some questions about the babies behaviour patterns, sleep patterns etc. and the Dr. looks very pleased. Well done for this guy.
Med student number three. Looks at my baby girls face and says \"Her face is asymetrical, and it looks like her eyes are pretty wide apart.\"
Seriously. That\'s his diagnosis. That\'s the future brainwave who hopes to one day be out in the world solving problems. The good news is that holding a sleeping baby keeps my wife from yelling or slapping the dude.
Apparently the Dr. took the student into the hall and gave him a good yelling. Thought it was kind of funny.
