Hospital Experience Yesterday
Posted: Tue May 06, 2025 6:04 am
So my 6 year old daughter fell and hurt her elbow yesterday in the playground, my wife called the emergency number, available hospitals in the area nearby were suggested and we picked the first one available. Initially we thought it was just a bruise, but an X-RAY showed a compound fracture in her elbow...
It was then that the nightmare scenario began to unfold... The doctor said he could re-align the joint/bone immediately, to which I said ok lets do this, and asked you will be using anesthesia for this to which he said no....He also said the procedure would only take about 5 seconds...
I balked at this, suggested we try somewhere else, to which he replied, General anesthesia would be needed, and other Hospitals were also unlikely to use anesthesia for this re-alignment... He asked what we wanted to do, my wife just went into a panic, and I would say hardly 15 seconds went by when he asked a second time, what do you want to do?? It was hardly as if there was a line of people outside the door waiting on him, we were the only ones at this hospital at this time...
My Daughter was in quiet a bit of distress at this stage with the pain, considering it was getting later in the evening, it was the GW holiday, and based on what this doctor had told us, we decided to proceed with this...
She was taken into a room, with about 4 other medical staff in total (I guess 3 of them were going to hold her down..). Neither my wife or myself were allowed in the room...
I could hear my daughter crying out loud though the door while they did this procedure without anesthesia. They then put her arm in a cast, and she did feel better after this... One of the nurses who was in this room afterwards said my daughter behaved very well, basically was very courageous...
Talking to my wife a bit more about this today, she mentioned that there are cases in Japan; an example being childbirth where use of anesthesia is frowned upon/not really respected by hospital staff...
The more I think about this today, the angrier I am getting...A search on the internet of compound fractures and their treatment in Japan says that anesthesia should be used in their treatment... Adjectives such as "intense/Sharp" pain are used to describe the pain associated with them, I can only barely guess at the pain my daughter experienced considering she was in this state, and they then manually re-align the bones/joint while she was in this state...
Ben mentioned the other day, that medical treatment varies quite a bit in Japan and it's best to shop about for the better ones, I would say to anyone, particularly with Children that you do this checking in advance to avoid the situation we ended up in...
It was then that the nightmare scenario began to unfold... The doctor said he could re-align the joint/bone immediately, to which I said ok lets do this, and asked you will be using anesthesia for this to which he said no....He also said the procedure would only take about 5 seconds...
I balked at this, suggested we try somewhere else, to which he replied, General anesthesia would be needed, and other Hospitals were also unlikely to use anesthesia for this re-alignment... He asked what we wanted to do, my wife just went into a panic, and I would say hardly 15 seconds went by when he asked a second time, what do you want to do?? It was hardly as if there was a line of people outside the door waiting on him, we were the only ones at this hospital at this time...
My Daughter was in quiet a bit of distress at this stage with the pain, considering it was getting later in the evening, it was the GW holiday, and based on what this doctor had told us, we decided to proceed with this...
She was taken into a room, with about 4 other medical staff in total (I guess 3 of them were going to hold her down..). Neither my wife or myself were allowed in the room...
I could hear my daughter crying out loud though the door while they did this procedure without anesthesia. They then put her arm in a cast, and she did feel better after this... One of the nurses who was in this room afterwards said my daughter behaved very well, basically was very courageous...
Talking to my wife a bit more about this today, she mentioned that there are cases in Japan; an example being childbirth where use of anesthesia is frowned upon/not really respected by hospital staff...
The more I think about this today, the angrier I am getting...A search on the internet of compound fractures and their treatment in Japan says that anesthesia should be used in their treatment... Adjectives such as "intense/Sharp" pain are used to describe the pain associated with them, I can only barely guess at the pain my daughter experienced considering she was in this state, and they then manually re-align the bones/joint while she was in this state...
Ben mentioned the other day, that medical treatment varies quite a bit in Japan and it's best to shop about for the better ones, I would say to anyone, particularly with Children that you do this checking in advance to avoid the situation we ended up in...
