"Fat shaming a child"

I took my child to ED, they’d been sent home from school 2 days earlier morning feeling unwell and feverish. >48hrs of ibuprofen and paracetamol intermittently was barely staying on top of their fever and they were a shell of themselves just wanting to stay in bed. Headache, dizzy, sore throat and fever

Kal Regional’s triage and ED was efficient and relatively painless; we were in and out within 2.5 hrs. 

However I was unimpressed with what I felt was the ED Physician fat shaming my child. They asked how much my child weighed then seemed to balk when I told them the weight a fortnight ago when they were at GP. The ED Physician said that my child is not particularly tall and a child of their age should weigh about 10kg less that than. I tried to explain my child's very active and we try keep their weight in the higher percentiles as they have has other health issues but they wouldn’t seem to have a bar of it and weighed my child again 3 kg lighter than a fortnight ago (they’d barely eaten for 3 days) and said it's not much better. 

This is all in front of my child … I was horrified!

Time and place: the last thing any child needs to hear, especially an unwell one! I believe they could have suspended their disbelief and discussed it with me privately.

But they diagnosed tonsillitis and they should be right as rain by the weekend, and for that I am grateful. Thanks for the penicillin and the morning dose we were sent home with for before chemist opened!