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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/oct/26/mother-toddler-doctors-fatally-wrong>
"On the morning of 30 November 2022, Keri-Sue McManus sat down with her
three-year-old son, Micah, to watch the TV series
Daniel Tiger’s
Neighborhood. A preschool animation about a tiger cub, the show sets out to
teach life lessons. That day, Keri-Sue chose a specific episode,
Daniel Goes
to the Hospital, for a reason. She planned to take Micah to hospital and was
using the cartoon to reassure him that everything would be OK.
She was sensitive to his mood because it wasn’t the first time Micah had
visited the emergency room in recent weeks. In fact, it was the third time
Keri-Sue had taken her toddler to hospital, and the sixth time that month she
had contacted various doctors about his deterioration: he had a lack of
appetite, weakness, fatigue and severe dizziness, and these symptoms were
getting worse.
Each time, she was reassured he would get better. One medic even implied that
their frequent visits to the hospital were giving her son anxiety. It was
suggested the mother should think twice about taking him in again, for his own
sake – hence the cartoon.
In the
Daniel Tiger episode, the cub, nervously approaching his appointment,
is told: “The hospital is a place where doctors and nurses work together to
help you get better.” But that’s not the way it worked out for Micah, who died
just hours after he arrived on this third visit, after a series of clinicians
failed to take his condition seriously."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: October 31, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-115042386
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
