Yeah, we call the doctor's examination room a "surgery", and the place you get the actual surgery done is an "operating theatre". Divided by a common language and all that... but obviously it comes from a time when your local doctor would have performed surgery (presumably with leeches) in his front room.
But he ended up in surgery pretty quickly after we arrived at the hospital. It took them a day to analyse his X-rays and realise he was not responding to regular antibiotics, and the decision was made to transfer him to the larger hospital for the operation. As for the misdiagnosis made by our family doctor (G.P. or General Practitioner, we call them), I'm not qualified to comment on whether it was a reasonable error or not.
But he ended up in surgery pretty quickly after we arrived at the hospital. It took them a day to analyse his X-rays and realise he was not responding to regular antibiotics, and the decision was made to transfer him to the larger hospital for the operation. As for the misdiagnosis made by our family doctor (G.P. or General Practitioner, we call them), I'm not qualified to comment on whether it was a reasonable error or not.