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Montreal Children's Hospital or Dungeon? - Abysmal experience with these crazy quacks!
Week 1:
It happened in mid Feb, 2009. We sent our 2-year-old son to ER of this hospital for extremely bad whizzing coughs; nurses gave him masks and sent us back with a prescription for 4 days for Asthma. Is it Asthma or Pneumonia? The doctors there never gave him an x-ray or any test;
Week 2:
Sunday - We sent him to ER again because he suddenly got a high fever and vomited several times, lips turning blue. After TEN hours waiting, Doctor Konstantin checked his throat and said it was red but OK. He suggested using Tylenol; he met with us for five minutes, gave him a dose Tylenol and did no test at all;
Monday - Several hours after we came back (already midnight), my son screamed in the dark and had hallucination due to persistent, 40-degree plus fever. We called ambulance and rushed him to ER again, a triage nurse warned us that it would be a 10-hour-wait and said all his symptoms were because of fever. We had to leave.
Tuesday - My son was trembling in the morning and his lips were blue, temperature still above 40 degrees, we went to ER again of the same hospital (How STUPID!). After 6 hours waiting, a doctor checked his ears and lungs; it took him 3 minutes to decide it was OK and gave him no test or prescription again;
Wednesday – My son already had high fever for 5 days! We were crazy and knew that sending him to Montreal Children's Hospital would be the worst choice. We went to the local CLSC, the doctor immediately sent him for X-ray. It turned out he had had Pneumonia for quite some time! Probably since he had Asthma (according to Montreal Children's Hospital) two weeks ago. The CLSC doctor prescribed some antibiotics and my son had to take it for ten days.
These days were the hardest time in life for me and my wife; we were so terrified by my son’s symptoms of Pneumonia. But now I realize the more frightening part is that these cracks at Montreal Children's Hospital had not the least medical skills or ethics (or both) to save our kids! They get 6-figure salaries ruining our children’s lives!
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
here's where i did my complaints and this lady got back to me right away.
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oh...the website url;
http://www.thechildren.com/en/patients/complaints.aspx
I'm sympathetic but these things do happens and I don't even believe the hospital ombudsman could do anything about it. As you mentioned, you sent your child there multiple times and saw different doctors and they were all irresponsible. Therefore, the unethical mentality has been embedded in the hospital culture and takes too much to change.
Avoid these hospitals seems to be the only way.
Rebecca
Hey, come to the states, we got better hospitals here. Only problem is you need to pay for insurance.
I agree with some of what you say, but I think the MUHC did the right thing in this case:
Montreal couple suing the MUHC and their doctor, claiming their daughter's birth was botched and a committee overruled their wishes to let their comatose daughter die. Marie-Eve Laurendeau and Stephane Mantha are seeking $3, 475, 000 in damages, claiming the ethics committee at the Children's illegally overruled their decision to take the severely-disabled girl, Phebe Mantha, off of life support.