A specialist wrote out a referral for a girl with a hereditary disease. It was about disturbing results in a hearing test. But for the clinic in Vienna it was not an emergency, the three-year-old and her father were sent from the hospital.
Three-year-old Mia suffers from a hereditary disease, Crouzon’s syndrome, which causes premature ossification of the sutures of the skull in children. “As a result, she could become deaf at any time,” says her father Markus H.
Worrying Test
To detect any deterioration at an early stage, the ENT doctor performs regular sound wave tests. The latter ended so badly that the doctor feared she would soon hear nothing more. “I got a referral and went to the SMZ Ost. And although I described the urgency and the problem, I didn’t get an appointment until a month later,” says H. But by then it might be too late for little Mia, he fears.
emergency, right?
When he insisted it was an emergency, he was referred from the clinic by a senior physician. “It shouldn’t be like that,” he says. According to the Vienna Health Association, emergencies are always accepted. But father and daughter see it differently.
Source: Krone
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