‘A National Crisis and People Don’t Know About It’: American Emergency Rooms Are Failing Its Children
‘I was unable to save kids who should have been saved,’ one doctor, who is advocating for increased standards of care nationally, tells the Sun.
When Phyllis Rabinowitz and her husband brought their lethargic newborn baby to an emergency room, they were told not to worry about it and that they were being overprotective. “Let me get to the real emergency down the hall,” she says doctors told them.
The next morning, their daughter, Rebecca, passed away from a misdiagnosed enteroviral infection. She would have recently celebrated her 16th birthday.
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