"Attend Ed with child after motorcycle accident"

My child had a motorcycle accident at an event recently. We attended the ED department with persistent right shoulder pain, after a couple of hours waiting in pain my child was taken around to get x-rayed and they came back to the waiting room for another couple hours. We were take in the kitchenette in Ed and told that my child didn’t have any fractures and to go home and take pain killers and if not better by the day after tomorrow make appointment to see the GP for a referral for an ultrasound.

Following day my child had chest pain, took them to the chiropractor for an adjustment and the chiropractor wrote a referral for ultrasound. My child had that a week later and showed full thickness tear of the supraspinatus tendon with background temdinopathy and retraction of approximately 17mm & was recommended to have an MRI.

3 weeks after the accident my child had an MRI which revealed complete tears of the supraspinatus, infraspinatus & the subscaularis with retraction. Subluxed biceps, impaction injury with impaction fracture at the anterior aspect of the numeral head. Tear of the anterior band of the IGHL, fluid, debris within the joint space.

My child is now waiting 4 weeks later to see a surgeon, this should have been operated on in the first week, but no this doctor was seemingly more concerned about getting them out of their hair then ordering a ultrasound on the night.

In my opinion, this is not good enough, I believe my child should be recovering from surgery not waiting for to see a surgeon.