Having made some negative comments, I must now report the dire consequences
of a family refusing to follow the advice from NHS Direct.
2 yr old child, unwell with cold type symptoms for a week, becomes more
unwell (you know what is coming!). Mum phones NHS Direct who despatch an
emergency ambulance. Mum refuses to go to hospital because she is not that
worried & has other children to look after. Concerned ambulance crew arrange
for deputising doc to visit who diagnoses a viral illness.
The child is brought to the surgery next morning in a moribund state & is
currently not well on ITU with meningococcal septicaemia.
John Apps
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