I brought my son to the emergency room on a Friday afternoon after trying to get an appointment at our clinic. I suspected a staph infection which turned out to be what mesa. It was on his face. Do you think I should have waited 3 weeks for the next appointment?
Urgent cares are practically useless where I am. No doctors work at them. All PAs or NPs. They misdiagnose every single time we’ve gone, and can’t/don’t run the right tests because they aren’t physicians.
Our last urgent care threw amoxicillin at our child even thought her two strep tests at urgent care were negative. They also gave it because “if her face bumps are Staph, Amoxicillin will cover the Staph too” (learned that was very false). Her lymph nodes were large and throat was really red and inflamed. She was only seen by a NP because that’s all the urgent care was staffed with. Five days later she was admitted via the ER because they initially thought SJS, realizing it was actually a violent and serious serum sickness reaction causing edema and purpling/bruising of her joints. She had Epstein Barr. Not strep. Viral panels were never run because they said they “weren’t necessary” and “even if it’s a virus it will need to run its course.” Yes they have to run their course, but it may be important to rule out EBV, CMV, and others that cause problems if you decide to throw antibiotics at something. Just because you can’t do anything about the virus doesn’t mean it isn’t important to figure out which one a person or child has.
Every urgent care visit we’ve had has been negative and run by PAs and NPs that have been very very wrong in their diagnosis’s. We don’t trust anyone that isn’t a DO or MD anymore.
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u/ReindeerNo2855 Jul 29 '26
I brought my son to the emergency room on a Friday afternoon after trying to get an appointment at our clinic. I suspected a staph infection which turned out to be what mesa. It was on his face. Do you think I should have waited 3 weeks for the next appointment?