So awful. We place so much faith and trust in doctors when it comes to making a correct diagnoses, it’s hard to disagree with them, hard to even know if they could be wrong and we should disagree. So sad

If you have doubts, always ask for a second opinion. Such a sad thing to happen.

Terrible thing to happen any time – but so close to Christmas makes it even worse. Condolences to the family.

Heartbreaking.. Love to the family and RIP little man x

Thoughts and prayers to family

How devastating.My heart breaks for these parents.
I’m so thankful for the medical system we have in our country, but they’re not infallible. Sometimes it’s worth pushing for more testing or further investigation if you’re not happy with what you’re told. Recently our son was diagnosed with a serious disease which has been passed off as something minor for the last few months. We just kept going back and saying ‘this is taking too long to heal’ and ‘this doesn’t feel as simple as you’re suggesting’. Sometimes we felt like maybe we were just worrying, but evidence was only visible in testing after a couple of months. Follow your guts parents. Look after your babies as best you can ????

I would call Health direct and also ask for their opinion

How sad is this. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family.

Poor darling – just devastating for the family.

This kind of stuff is Happening why to offend to both children & Adults Don’t Doctor’s Give a stuff Anymore ??????

So sad. That little child surely deserved more attention from the hospital. 🙁

Thoughts are with the family, glad they got answers

The rash would have rung alarm bells for me. He also should not have been discharged with a high temperature.

Although it is rare, you can be allergic to paracetamol. I know of a child who is allergic to it, so much so that she cannot have physical contact with anybody who has taken it within a number of hours.
The same thing can apply to Iboprufen.

And this is why we hold doctors to a high standard – the devastating consequences when they don’t live up to them.

So sad. I think it’s necessary that doctors are held accountable in situations like this. They’re in a well paid profession but with that comes a responsibility to do the job with all due diligence. I feel like many doctors now days are rushing through consults and the consequences can be deadly. I’ve been misdiagnosed by a doctor before, as a result I now have contact dermatitis that flares up randomly throughout the year and extremely sensitive skin. If he’d been more thorough I would have been prescribed the antibiotics I needed sooner instead of the steroid cream that ruined my skin.

This happened to my great nephew 18 months of age, Pediatrician sent infant home 2 or 3 times when parents took very ill child to emergency with high fever, crying, vomiting and diarrhea. He died in his sleep his little body could not fight anymore. Parents were checking on him, he was asleep and next time he was no longer alive. Autopsy showed he had more than one infection that was not treated. He was the youngest of three children, wonderful attentive parents. This neglect was in 2004 In a major Queensland Hospital. Parents did not take legal action, they were too distraught to do so and they still would not have their baby boy.
I wonder how often these situations are overlooked.

More recently, at the same hospital, a nine year old boy could have so easily died. The parents took him to emergency with severe abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, very pale and lethargic, high fever, sent home. Returned to emergency and was about to be sent home when parent expressed concern could it be appendicitis? Pediatrician said children under 10 years do not get appendicitis! Over heard by another ER doctor who came and examined the boy and emergency surgery saved his life. He had ruptured appendix and sepsis. Very ill and took time to recover, and thankfully he survived.

Doctors are reprimanded for “over servicing” . Requesting tests too often. that cost the health departments and medical insurance companies too much.

Very sad to read another story of a child sent home and died because of a doctor’s mistake.

Devastating I hope the family are able to find a small amount of comfort out of the findings.