Thread: Fiona Stanley hospital - our positive experience

If you read the media here in WA, all you generally hear about the Fiona Stanley Hospital are negative reports.

However, since our 9 year old son was admitted on Saturday afternoon (with what we initially thought was a really sore back and has very scarily developed into some sort of kidney issue) all I can report are highly positive experiences.

We were so lucky our usual doctors had just closed which prompted us to head to emergency. Initially we weren't too concerned but when he started crying with the pain and vomiting we thought something wasn't quite right.

First of all great that the kids emergency is divided off from adults (and all he druggies etc you see there). Then we had a great young Irish doctor, some lovely nurses and a fantastic paediatrician who took the time to run some tests and work out all wasn't what it seemed (especially when our boy was then saying he was feeling fine).

Next steps involve being admitted to an awesome kids ward. Great room and again amazing doctors and nurses who all have the best rapport with kids.

We still don't know exactly what the issue is, it seems like we are living an episode of House and it is a very unsettling experience. However, I know there are some staff on this forum who work there so thank you to all the staff for all your help.

You should all feel so lucky that you are not in South Australia, mind you, the nurses and doctors are fantastic, it is just the Governments handling of the health system.

Glad all are getting better, cheers.

Mike