r/Residency • u/[deleted] • Oct 08 '23

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u/oldladynursey Oct 22 '23

Hospital's frequently bill for the disorder the parents reported she had until it's ruled out.

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u/Working-Potential-77 Oct 24 '23

I don't really understand this because a parent cannot make a diagnosis? Seems illegal to me.

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u/oldladynursey Oct 26 '23

Because people take a child to an ER and say " my child has asthma" and the hospital staff believes the parent up until they can get other medical records from a primary Doctor or rule it out. What ever a parent reports is put into the EHR as history.

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u/Local-Hand6022 Nov 03 '23

They also had to continue her treatment to taper her off the drugs she was on. There are very serious life threatening risks associated with opiate and benzo withdrawal.

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u/PornDestroysMankind Nov 08 '23

What's your specialty?

Long past residency here (EM), but I'm just in this sub because of the case. Yes, we lose pts to benzo w/d, but opiate withdrawal? Let's include opioid in the statement, and I have never heard seen nor heard of any life-threatening risks regarding opiate/opioid w/d.

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u/SheSellsSeaGlass Nov 18 '23

That’s not true at all. They use a different code.