all doctors should be able to hear large amounts of fluid in the lungs and, furthermore, should be on the lookout for pneumonia when someone had flu and then got worse. Your doctors, in this case, performed terribly.
Seconded. This is an insane story. You don't need a second opinion, you need a better doctor.
I suspect you are correct. The fact that the second doctor I saw immediately sent him to hospital makes me think the first doctor was not doing her job properly. I guess that's why they say you should always get a second opinion.
The second doctor shouldn't make you second guess your first doctor. The second doctor had the advantage of time. Pneumonia generally doesn't manifest in the span of hours.
It's not like a liter of fluid is just dumped into the lungs immediately... couple that with Rhonchi or Rales due to (what I presume) bronchitis that WAS diagnosed. You can't treat everyone that is Flu-like symptoms as if they are going to die of pneumonia. Doesn't make sense.
but people with neck pain + fever + general sickness after a flu? that could also have been meningitis!