what should I have expected from the first ent visit?

MsHan

i feel like we were used just for our copay for both boys.   it was a pain to get an  appt back to back, i dont feel like we had the dr's fulll attention.  he looked in each boys ear, had the nurse administer the hand held hearing test  then gave us a referral to another dr because he no loger does peds cases..i had to give the boys dob when i booked, shouldnt the office staff have told me the dr no longer works on children?  was it odd he didnt look up their noses or in their mouth?  obviously this is not a dr i want for my children..!ut was this typical? 

*edit* meanwhile he said b's ears were red, hears well but should get tubes   connor has fluid but she be fine without tubes...that made no sense to me 

UsedToBeGoldie

yeah- i'd be P!SSED that they didn't tell you he doesn't see peds... i would call the office manager and demand to NOT be billed. that is bullsh!t.

molldoll71

Who did you see?  I would be annoyed that they wasted my time!  For Billy, the looked in ears, down mouth and took in his general appearance.  Blly had an ear infection at the time so gave us antibiotics and had us come back in 3 weeks to look at ears again and that is when he recommened tubes and tonsils and adenoids removed.

molldoll71

fluid is not bad unless it never drains but it can take a month or so to drain after an infection.

Kristen81603

yeah, with Mikey, they looked in his ears, took a full history of infections and health, looked in his nose and throat. Talked about the course of action we could take, what she recommended and what to do when we decided what to do- Then for his pre op we had a real hearing test and another exam to be sure the fluid was still there because if the fluid drained then we would wait to do the surgery. But it didn't- 

UsedToBeGoldie

oh, and Gray's first appt we first went with the audiologist who did a hearing test... in that little "box" room -where he looks to the side that the noise is coming from... then she did the pressure test sticking the thing in his ear.

then we met with the ENT (Dr. Sorvino in Morristown) who looked in his ears, mouth, nose... and looked at the data from the audiologist... and explained to me how Gray hears good and bad- which is even worse than hearing all good b/c it's confusing for language development.  He said a good eardrum is bouncy like a trampoline. A really bad one is like cement.  Grays was like plywood... a little flexible, but not enough.... and he recommended tubes - went over how the procedure goes, etc... and told me if I wanted to do it i would meet with his nurse to schedule and go over procedure, etc. (which I did).

 

BeachBaby07

NO way would I let this go. I would call and demand to be refunded my co pay and I would call the insurance company and let them know what happened. They took your money and had no intention of treating your kids, that is insurance fraud