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[quote=Anonymous]The reason she didn't mention that he's a doctor is that he hadn't actually seen his kid.  You can be the world's greatest pediatric specialist but if you haven't actually seen your kid that day then you should rely on an experienced nanny's opinion.

Sounds like dad saw the kid for half an hour in the morning, kid was throwing up all fluids and had no wet diapers all day (after doing the same the day before and overnight), so by bedtime (12 hours after dad had seen the kid and 24 hours after the last wet diaper) nanny was strongly advocating for the child to be taken to urgent care.  If dad came home at that point to examine the kid and THEN determined that they were fine to go on a date instead of take their kid into urgent care, then that would be one thing, but the parents ignored both standard medical advice and the opinion of the person actually with the child so that they wouldn't miss date night and ended up with a kid on an IV.

OP, if you are going to be a nurse, you should know that doctors think they know more than everyone and will comepletely ignore the opinion of anyone who doesn't have an MD even if they have lots of actual hands-on experience.  I had a doctor DB who insisted that he needed to hydrate a vomiting child by giving him a full bottle of milk immediately after he threw up.  The kid went 6 hours without being able to keep anything down before dad finally let me try my approach (wait 20 minutes after throwing up and start with only small sips instead of an 8oz bottle) and the kid was miraculously able to actually keep some fluids down.[/quote]

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