Glass in foot, should i see the doctor?
Unless you actually develop an infection or can't walk on it after a few days you should be just fine. I was in a car accident many years ago and my left arm went through the driver side window, embedding an incredible amount of glass throughout my entire arm. They plucked out the larger shards in the hospital, the ones they could get to, and had to leave the rest in my arm. I shed glass for at least 3 years. To this day I still have a few large pieces of glass embedded in muscle (sometimes I can feel it cut when it starts moving) but the surgeon feels it's better to leave them in there than to do exploratory surgery trying to find them and get it out. Your body has a way of taking care of itself, like with wood your body will reject the glass and push it out in it's own time. Don't be surprised if it does get painful at times when pressure builds while it's working it's way out.
Could I sue a doctor for giving me bad advice?
Probably not. He was not telling you that you were faking anything; he was giving you an opinion based on his exam. The xrays would have cost you more; I suspect that you would not have paid for them and he might have even mentioned that and you agreed that you didn't want to pay for it. Next, restless leg syndrome would not have shown up on xrays anyway. So that is nothing you can grab on to. Finally, do you have a doctor's diagnosis that this is the problem, or have you just figured this out from a story you read recently? That is not going to give you any basis for a malpractice suit. I'm pretty sure you would never find an attorney that would take this case because of the slim chance of success.
I have a painful little white dot on my foot beneath my toe. it's red around it, and it hurts. what is it?
And what can I do about it? It doesn't look like a blister.like it doesn't look like it has liquid, it is very white, and little...looks almost like a little pimple, but red around it.
What should if a preschoolers ran over my foot with a tricycle full force? ?
Do you mean how do you take care of your injury? That's a question for another category. Do you mean how to discipline the preschooler? Was the child in your care at the time? If not, you should tell the person that was responsible for the child, so that he or she can deal with the behavior. If the child was in MY care when he ran over my foot, I would first let him know that his actions hurt me. I would yell "OUCH!" and hold my foot, maybe exaggerate a little bit to make my point. Then I would run (hobble) up to him and stop his tricycle. I would squat down to his eye level and calmly explain to him that it is not okay to run over people's feet. "Do you want to continue riding this tricycle?" I would ask. After he nods "yes," I would say that he needs to SLOW DOWN and ride AROUND people. If he can't ride safely, his tricycle will be taken away. Then he either rides safely, or he loses his tricycle. You HAVE to follow through on a threatened consequence. (How long he loses it for depends on how old he is, whether or not he is remorseful, etc.) OTOH, if he has already been warned about not riding his tricycle safely, I would probably take his tricycle away right away and not give him a second chance. Losing his tricycle is an appropriate natural consequence for riding it recklessly. Edited to add: I normally don't yell either. But I work with children who have special needs, some of whom wouldn't understand if I just tell them that they hurt my foot when they ran over it. Empathy is hard for some children to learn. Amber has good advice for taking care of the actual injury.
What made you lose trust in a doctor?
I took my then 13 year old daughter to her pediatrician for a school- required physical. She'd been my daughter's pediatrician since birth and I trusted her implicitly. I even drove an hour each way to her office, because she was patient, thorough, and tolerant of my over-worrying.So that day, she had my daughter stand up and put her arms out to her sides. THEN STARTED LAUGHING, TELLING MY KID SHE WAS CROOKED. My daughter and I just stared at each other for a full minute, not sure if she was joking, serious, or if she'd lost her mind.Because this woman just stood there, laughing, and even told me to come see how crooked she was.I mean, we all know 13 year old girls aren’t at all self- conscious about their bodies, right? *heavy sarcasm here*I grabbed my kid, told the doctor to fuck off, and walked out. Within two months of that visit, after several specialist opinions, she'd developed an eating disorder, so self conscious she was basically trying to make herself disappear. The spine specialist had told us she had a 43% curve to her spine, and the surgery she would need had a very, very high rate of paralysis. On top of that, she wouldn't be any straighter or in any less pain, the surgery (which would require going in through the chest to try to roll the ribs straight, then fusing two steel rods to her spine) would just ensure the curve wouldn't get any worse.Luckily, she was done growing all ready by that point, and the surgery wasn't a necessity. And if I ever see that pediatrician again, I will thunder punch her in the throat so hard she'll never be able to laugh again.
Is it ethical for a doctor to refuse pain medication for someone with a broken foot?
As David Chan has so correctly stated the issue is FAR bigger then the one on one issue of does this patient need pain meds and are they shopping for drugsAbout a decade ago the Federal Gov. REQUIRED all of us to query all of our patients as part of our examinations about the level of their overall pain and or pain control. They required it and even went so far as to ask Medicare recipients in their after visit surveys if we did it and or how well we followed up on the mandatory questions.THAT is what triggered the Opioid crisis we have in America today. When we asked routinely about pain control and then focused our patients to being pain FREE rather then pain tolerant we set off a course of action that right now is a run away train with no potential end in sight The whole story in this question is NOT known all we can do is surmise and attempting to "know" is like corralling greased pigs it simply is impossible based on what we have to base a final determination onIn general sense however a fractured foot or bone for that matter MIGHT require some more pain meds the Tylenol but surely not likely to need Dilaudid or Morphine so the issue is what level of pain meds was the patient requesting? Also why is a simply foot fracture in an admitted state where actual nurses orders have been written?We do pretty major surgery today and send the patients packing to their home why was this patient admitted?I notice that they are routinely doing full knee replacement surgeries at 8AM and discharging the patients before the dinner meals are delivered so this case is unique in 2016In general unless a patient is absolutely opioid non-virgin or someone who needs chronic care like a cancer patient or major long term pain patient the extra concerns MUST be made as to who gets narcotics and who is given other drugs titrated until insufficient effect then shifted over to only the lowest does of narcotics to a LOWER the pain not to attempt to eliminate the painIt is VERY easy to take an otherwise normal person and convert them to an addict even with one short course of narcoticsThanks for the request to answer hope this helpsDr D