Patient
I arrived around 5:30 on Thursday November 13, 2025 in order to bring my 3 year old daughter in. Earlier that day she had been diagnosed with a concussion and we were told if she started vomiting that we needed to bring her in. Upon arrival we waited for about 45 minutes before we got pulled back. The doctor comes in and I explain that she had a diagnosed concussion and that we were instructed to bring her in for a cat scan if she started throwing up, which is what we did. Without doing any form of exam the "doctor" immediately told me that the stomach bug is going around and the nausea is something she picked up in daycare. At this point I pointed out that it's pretty presumptive to say she caught the bug at daycare since my daughter stays home with me and no one in the household is showing symptoms. I repointed out that she was diagnosed with a concussion and instead of stopping and checking on my daughter, started asking for the person who diagnosed the concussions credentials telling me that whoever they were must not know the signs of a concussion. At this point I was fed up. She still hadn't even glanced at my daughter and although I am not a medical professional (and I was not the one to diagnose her) I am concussion protocol certified and told her "Not only have you yet to even look at my daughter, I'm sorry but she hit her head this morning, went limp and became unconscious right after it happens for a 5-15 second and given that it was followed by amnesia and no other indication of nausea, on top of having a diagnosed concussion. I need to know if she has a brain bleed or if the nausea is just a low grade concussion." The doctor looked taken back and then rolled her eyes saying "I don't know if she qualifies for a CT Scan." She then GOOGLED right in front of me to see if my daughter was qualified (which she was). She then very reluctantly told me that she'd start the paperwork and that in the meantime my 3 year old could have some zofran to help with the nausea. We were then escorted back to the waiting area and told they would come get us. About 20 minutes later we were pulled back to the CT room to get the scan. The nurse asked if I could stay in there with her which I agreed to. She then told me to pick up my daughter and put her on the table before wrapping her in the protective stuff, telling her to sit still, and walked away. Not once did she talk to my daughter or me about expectations. Thankfully I knew and grabbed a protective vest. My daughter at this point was terrified and so I made up a story about going into a spaceship and together we decided that we were going to go to Saturn together since it has rings. Thankfully it distracted her enough that she sat stopped crying and sat relatively still. The nurse came back in said your done and then showed us back to the waiting room saying that they would come get us in 45 minutes to discuss results. This was at 645. We did not get pulled back until 8:11 and told that the provider was on the way. We then sat in the room for until 9. I asked the nurses once for juice for my daughter and an update about 20 minutes into it. I then went and got my baby from the waiting room and asked for another check up about 20 minutes after that. The nurses said that multiple nurses messaged the provider and they don't know what's going on. At around 9:30, still no doctor, the nurses came in, handed me discharge paperwork, said "everything you need to know is in there" and walked away. NO ONE discussed the results of the CT Scan of a 3 year old head trauma with me once. Thankfully I have a PAs phone number that could read the results because heaven knows no one at that hospital was going to tell me anything. After everything, I decided I wanted a copy of the actual scans so that I could forward them onto someone else for a second opinion when they DENIED me access to the medical records saying if it's not in the discharge paperwork it's not important and unnecessary to release.