The Next Doctor

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, one of the most frightening days of my life. Austin, my youngest son, at the age of 13, began to develop a hacking cough in March of 2013. Normally he was a physically healthy young man. So, to find out the cause we went to the doctor. Austin’s pediatrician diagnosed him with bronchitis, put him on antibiotics and sent us on our way. Two weeks later Austin was tested for allergies and asthma and prescribed inhalers and Singulair. After a long, two months of trying the…

bag at school and in the evening I could barely raise my arms to change out of my suit. I went to the doctor, he told me I had tendinitis and burcitis in my shoulder. He advised me to lay off practice for a week and to begin physical therapy.…

second layer of skin. I put on a gigantic bandage on my chin the next day, not knowing that I would get a huge rash on my chin. I went to summer camp that day and when I got home, my chin was irritating me a lot. I took the bandage off and around my injury, it was all bright pink. I thought “ Ehh, it’s okay, it will go away.” The rash did indeed go away but that was not until the day after. We then visited the doctor and the doctor told us that I should have gotten stitches. But, it was too late…

was in the seventh grade. While many of my other teammates were running with ease, I was enduring severe sharp pains in my hip. I went on with this pain for a long time before I finally convinced my mom to take me to the doctor. When we got an appointment with our family doctor, he informed me that all the pain that I was experiencing was because my hip was out of place. Once we learned this, it seemed that I was going to the…

Hello and welcome to my story. now let us begin now shall we? so it all started when i was born my parents were nice people when i was born one of the things they told me i did i used to run around and not do the normal things a baby was or should i say could be doing i would be able to have put on my own close and put on masks and i would find ways to scare my mom and dad to the point they just plain old fall down now this is where things got interesting my first day of school it was a tiny old…

At the age of 14 I was diagnosed with a mental compulsive disorder. Little did I know this disorder was going to control every aspect in my life, it prevented me from living like a normal kid. I was too blind to see and understand how this disorder was taking over my childhood. This mental compulsive disorder controlled my thoughts and the way I acted. It made me picture awful things and set guidelines or rules I had to follow for example, I couldn’t touch anyone, and if I did, I had to wash…

head was twenthy-one inches round. As the two years went by I had another little girl her name was Mia Nicole, she was born on December 20, 2000. Months went by their dad Jason was having migranes for about three months. We had been going to the doctors nobody could figure it out, I ask for them to do a cat scan many times they refused not even the hospital wanted to do one. When June 20, 2001 came around his mom took him this time, her being an LVN they listened to…

parents would take me to the doctors at least 2 times a week. The doctors didn’t believe me. Before they even looked in my ears, they would tell my parents I was exaggerating. When I told them my pain was a 100, they told my parents it was actually probably a 2. One day, though, they looked in my ears, and realized I didn’t have any eardrums left, in either of my ears. They spent the rest of that appointment apologizing to my parents and I for not believing us. The next month, I had 8 hour…

there is no medical documents saying you cannot come back.” So I set up an emergency check up with the family doctor, and got in the next afternoon. When I arrived in the waiting room I was called back to see my doctor almost immediately. This time no nurse came in to take vitals or ask questions as I had been in there several times about my injuries over the last month or so. When my doctor walked…

Patients debated with doctors regarding treatment options and waiting times, and not all regained full health. One patient, Magda was part of the latter group. After being diagnosed with arthritis in her right knee, she began receiving cortisone shots. But a few months passed, and the shots did nothing to soothe her aching knee. The doctor recommended SYNVISC, but her insurance did not clear her treatment so soon after receiving her first cortisone shot. I watched as the doctor calmly explained…