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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Depends, some people just turn up at the docs and expect to be seen without an appointment.
Of course, however when it became clear that the receptionist (who sounds like an utter cow btw, bit like the one in our surgery) was not willing to let them see a doctor, I would imagine most parents next option would be to phone 999...especially if their childs lips were blue. Its not clear if it would have been too late for an ambulance, as the story says that after speaking to the receptionist, the father 'eventually' threatened to ring an ambulance. This could mean he was arguing with her for 2 mins or half an hour, or more.
This receptionist should be sacked. In short. But the parents should also have rang an ambulance. Anyway, besides all of this, the story is so sad. RIP little one  |
...tbh, I would have ignored her and barged into the GPs room but as you say, I don't know how much time elapsed between her lips turning blue and her dying....you would think though that in the 70 minute wait, when she was so poorly, somebody else would have noticed she should have immediate attention...I don't know about these things but after such a long wait..did it all happen so quickly in the end that nobody could help her.....
...I don't know why the wait was so long in the first place...I guess it was because she didn't have an appointment and she was waiting to be fitted in..but I always thought that in any medical situation, children had priority over anyone else...