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TELK83 · January 2011

I'm having an interesting (to me, anyway) conversation on FB about pediatricians. It made me think of some questions that I don't feel like I can ask these IRL people. lol

Do you take your kid(s) to a pedi or a family practice?

Do you like your pedi?

Do you like the staff?

Why did you pick the doctor your child sees?

Do you ask your pedi for parenting advice? (such as sleep and discipline)

What would be deal brakers that would make you consider leaving for another doctor?

SuthrnBelle72 · January 2011

Do you take your kid(s) to a pedi or a family practice? Pedi

Do you like your pedi? I do now. I hated the 1st one we took chase to, then changed when he was abt 9 months to a dr we had been on a waiting list for who has good knowledge abt eczema. Not real crazy abt the dr's bedside manner, but we see the P.A. every chance we get because she takes her time with us and covers everything.

Do you like the staff? Yes and No. Dr's bedside manner is not real good and he likes to rush thru the visit as quick as possible. He gets visibly perturbed when I actually bring a list of questions to ask. The nurse is nice enough, but for some reason acts like she doesn't like kids =/. Like I said, the P.A. is the awesomest and I will continue to go back as long as she is there. One of the other dr's in the practice is phenomenal, but he is rarely at the particular branch anymore =(

Why did you pick the doctor your child sees? His knowledge on eczema

Do you ask your pedi for parenting advice? (such as sleep and discipline) Absolutely

What would be deal brakers that would make you consider leaving for another doctor? if the Dr's attitude got worse or if the PA left the practice

melimelg · January 2011

Do you take your kid(s) to a pedi or a family practice? PediDo you like your pedi? yes - love themDo you like the staff? yes - I have had no issuesWhy did you pick the doctor your child sees? Yes - there are a couple that I like. I think there are 8 or 9 docs at the office. Do you ask your pedi for parenting advice? (such as sleep and discipline) We talk about it. I like to get the opinion of the 'professional' and like that they don't pressure you to do certain things. What would be deal brakers that would make you consider leaving for another doctor? Getting pressure to do things a certain way or if I didnt think that she was getting the care that she needed/I wanted for her.

Jakeybabe16 · January 2011

Do you take your kid(s) to a pedi or a family practice? Pedi Do you like your pedi? yes - love him Do you like the staff? yes - I have had no issues Why did you pick the doctor your child sees? he was my pedi when I was a kid. He also used to see adult patients but changed to just pedi when I was in high school Do you ask your pedi for parenting advice? (such as sleep and discipline) We talk about it. I like to get the opinion of the 'professional' and like that they don't pressure you to do certain things. (I agree with this) There also is so much conflicting info on the internet, so I like to ask what he thinks would be best based on Chase's current development What would be deal brakers that would make you consider leaving for another doctor? Getting pressure to do things a certain way or if the doctor was regularly late for appts (that's why we left our first pedi. He was increasingly late for appts. He was almost 40 minutes late to the last appt there!

TELK83 · January 2011

TELK83:

I'm having an interesting (to me, anyway) conversation on FB about pediatricians. It made me think of some questions that I don't feel like I can ask these IRL people. lol

Do you take your kid(s) to a pedi or a family practice? Pedi

Do you like your pedi? Yes!

Do you like the staff? I like them, but don't LOVE them like I do the doctor.

Why did you pick the doctor your child sees? I switched to her bc I heard good things about her practice and I was very unhappy with the one we were seeing.

Do you ask your pedi for parenting advice? (such as sleep and discipline) yes and no. I try not to. I feel like they are medical doctors not parenting experts; however, my pedi has 4 young kids (3 boys and a girl) so I feel like she's been there and done that with just about anything that could come up.

What would be deal brakers that would make you consider leaving for another doctor? With our first pedi my deal brakers were the rude staff, the short amt of time doc would be in the room, the fact that they had 2 offices 1 w/ the docs and 1 with NPs (the NP office was supposed to be for well visits only, but the sick overflow was always in that office with my well babies), and then I had issues with one of the docs laughing at me for co-sleeping, breastfeeding at night, and nursing on demand as if it was ridiculous. That was it...I switched soon afterwards. I also always just had a guilty feeling when we would leave. I always felt like this was not good enough care for my kids! I don't even know what I was comparing them to. It was just a mommy gut feeling.

unfortunately, I had to go back to them when Kelvin was laid off and the kids got medicade for 10 months. I think we went less than 5 times in those 10 months b/c I just hated going there. Since November I've been paying out of pocket to go back to the pedi i love and our insurance kicks in Feb. 1! YAY!

The reason I was thinking about this, was that I posted something about it on FB today after I had to call for a shot record and the girl on the phone was rude to me. A few mom friends ran to the defense of the pedi office that I have issues with. Saying they've never had a problem, they LOVE them blah blah bla . My thing is...if you've never been anywhere else then how would you know what you prefered? The fact is, they find that office acceptable and I don't (i'm not the only one. lots of others have left too!) but we are all 'good' moms. Either when I go there it's the twlight zone and everyone act differently to me than these people OR we have very different expectations.

I suppose there are different expectations for different people and we all find different things acceptable.

Isn't that fascinating or am I just wierd? lol

Where else might this happen?! Schools? teachers? aaahhh!!!

Thanks for reading all this. Sorry if you now think i'm crazy. I hope this makes a bit of sense.

Emily_Ann · January 2011

TELK83:

Do you take your kid(s) to a pedi or a family practice? Pedi

Do you like your pedi? Yes and no. He's been a ped for a long time, so he knows his stuff, and he's a parent, but he's kinda weird and always seems in a hurry. However, with our multiple visits last week, he seemed much less rushed and tuned in to the fact that I was very concerned without me having to say it, which I really appreciated. He also seemed to put the decision making in my hands. He gave me his recommendation on S's jaundice/dehydration (long story) and let me decide if I wanted to go ahead and make a medical move or just try to let it run its course. At the time, I was unsure of my decision, but now I'm really glad he let me decide instead of trying to push me into one or the other.

Do you like the staff? Yes! I LOVE his nurse practitioner, and she loves L. She even recognizes and talks to us when we run into each other at Target, etc.

Why did you pick the doctor your child sees? He was my pedi. I also later found out that he is one of the few pedi's in our town that actually come to your hospital room to assess the baby in the hospital. The dr.'s from the other big clinic do it in the nursery. I like that he comes to our room and talks to us as he checks out the baby. It gave me more of an opportunity to ask questions as I thought of them, instead of just having a pre-made list.

Do you ask your pedi for parenting advice? (such as sleep and discipline)
Occasionally. I usually as the NP though.

What would be deal breakers that would make you consider leaving for another doctor?
Not sure. They would have to make me really mad.

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