[MRD85]

I recall having really bad fevers. I'd taken some Panadol and gone to the doctors at work. When they measured my temperature it was at a low point and in the normal range. They ignored my description of how bad I felt and sent me home with a "if you're still sick tomorrow come back". I went home and continued to get worse and worse. I felt like absolute death. The next day I made it back to the doctors and when they took my temperature it was nearly 41 degrees. Turns out I had a blood infection and I had to be hospitalised and placed on IV antibiotics.

They based their initial "he's ok" on a single temperature check after I'd taken Panadol. I get it, when a doctor hears hooves they think horses. It's just frustrating.

[quibono]

While I empathise with what you went through I don't think it's fully honest to expect the doctor to always start off suspecting serious disease when most of the time it's something banal. There's also the issue of patient-doctor trust, where he might have had a few poeple in the past make their symptoms out to be bigger then they really were. It's all about acting on the data available and while I guess he should have behaved differently he basically had 2 pieces of information: your description of how you felt and a normal temperature reading. What would you have done in his place?

[hcknwscommenter]

It is also reasonable to conclude that the Pandol was working. If the Pandol is working, then there is no need for hospitalization. If you had arrived before taking the Pandol, they would probably have just given you the fever reducer, seen it working, and sent you home.

[MRD85]

With a blood infection, they won't send you home IIRC. They can be really serious.

[MRD85]

I'm not sure, I'm not a doctor. A normal temperature reading isn't unusual after taking Panadol. I'm not going to the doctors for fun, I knew I was really sick.