My husband was taken to this ER after an MVA and his chief complaint was of his mid back radiating down his left leg. After waiting four hours in the waiting room and two for the doctor, the doctor said that the mid back pain was from a muscle spasm thats normal. He's had muscle spasms before and he knew it wasn't. He tried to tell the doctor that but he wouldn't listen. Dr. tells him ok well we will do a Cervical CT. THERE WAS NO COMPLAINT OF NECK PAIN! He comes back & says that everything is fine. My mother asks him how did the low back CT look (she already knew he didn't take one of his low back) the dr. lied to her face saying that it was perfect nothing wrong at all. I told him you didn't take a CT of his mid back how would you know that. Dr. said oh um yea your right I didn't its just a muscle spasm he will be fine. Well he isn't fine. The next day we go to a different er and find out that he has a broken back in five different places and if that doctor would've taken a CT he would've known that!!!!!! We received the CT report from this hospital and it was worse. The doctor states in the report that my husband had said there was no pain in his back and mild complaint of neck pain. Later on in the report he contradicts himself by saying that he gave us papers for his mid back complaint.
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