Flu test gone wrong? In this article nine year old Hayli Murphy was misdiagnosed. After having a high fever, Hayli's mother took her to the hospital. The hospital said that there was nothing wrong with her at the time, and that she just had a cold. They didn't give her any medication and sent her home. The next day when her fever went up to 104 degrees, Hayli's mother rushed her right back to the hospital, only to be told she had the bad case of the flu. The doctors gave Hayli medicine, but when it wasn't working, Hayli's mother started asking questions. It turns out that the first night Hayli went to the hospital she had symptoms of the H1N1 virus, that the doctors seemed to have missed. Hayli spent 43 days in an intensive care unit while being treated.
My response: I think that it's bad that Hayli was misdiagnosed. Her being in the hospital could have been prevented if doctors checked her out thoroughly, and maybe even kept her overnight for observation.
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