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"Emergency of a boy"

About: Wycombe Hospital / Accident and emergency

(as a parent/guardian),

One morning my son was feeling very very bad. It started in the morning, with vomiting and diarrhea. So we left to the hospital. We have arrived to the reception, and staff told me to wait for the doctor. While we were waiting, my son started vomiting a yellow liquid. It was visible for everyone there that he was feeling real bad. I went to the receptionist again, and I have asked them to rush my son visit to the doctor. And I have asked this after 40 minutes of waiting. They told me in that the doctor is with a patient, in what I felt was an offensive way. So I must wait.

Finally the doctor got to us, consulted my son and told me that I must go with him in Aylesbury to the paediatrician, and told me that the transport is my problem. I thought I will die there. I was alone with my son, I don't have a car, and my son was keeping vomiting.

I can't believe this is happens in a european country. I am not born in UK, but even I know that the Emergency Unit is for emergencies. My son could have had something really bad, and we waited more than an hour for nothing. What I want to say is that is not normal. A child could die because was sunday and there wasnt a paediatrician in that hospital, because the receptionist didn't bother to announce to the doctor that a patient was feeling real bad and hurry the consultation. Wow, I mean I still cant believe this has happened to me. There must be something you can do about this. It is not normal, people.

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