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Now I don't know what to do.
I had an appointment with my doctor this morning to go over my blood work and just to see how things were going. I love her. I didn't feel rushed, she answered all my questions and made me feel so comfortable. She has this calming and reassuring personality. I walked out of there confident and so happy with how things are going.
She said she was very pleased with my numbers and unless I wanted them to do more, she was okay with not doing more at this point. She even told me that my progesterone level was fine, but she wanted to supplement because of my past.
And I LOVE the nurse that works with her specifically. She is funny and so easy to approach. It's the nurse that works the phones that drives me crazy.
So now I don't know what to do. There are issues with the practice, but I love the doctor and the nurse.
Any suggestions? Would you deal with the annoyance of the larger practice if you love the doctor and nurse? Or would you risk it to go to a new practice with a new doctor? I am so torn.
Re: Now I don't know what to do.
well I don't like change personally so I would stay. When I called my doc(which wasn't that often actually) I left a message with the nurse on the phones and then my doc's nurse called me back.
I guess your major consideration would be how often will you be calling and dealing with that nurse?
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Is this dr that you like so much the one who will deliver you? Or is it whichever dr is on call from the practice?
What issues do you have with the practice?
This was my question, too. You REALLY want someone good in there when you deliver, and to me, that outweighs the other issues.
I sort of agree. I love my Doctor. She is amazing. However, she no longer does deliveries and I chose to stay with her despite knowing there was 0% she'd deliver me. So, I agree that it's important to love your Doctor, but once I got down to delivering I (personally) didn't really care who 'caught'. To me, the nurses were much better coaches. Even if my doc still delivered, they share call, so I'd only have had a 1:7 chance of getting her anyway.
With that said, if you really love your doctor (I'm assuming here it's the old one where the Nurse was nasty about the early testing) I would say something to her. That you really like her and want to be her Patient but, given your history, want to make sure her whole staff is on the same page, etc. You're nervous and when you called your fears weren't taken seriously, etc. I'd just let her know what's up without being like "your nurse was a biatch to me".
I'm guessing that Megan meant that she sort of disagrees...and I would disagree also. To me, it was more important to have a good relationship with somebody for the 40 weeks of pregnancy than the short time they would actually be in the delivery room for the "catch." Like Megan said, the nurses are a much more active part of the laboring part.
With all of that said, when I delivered Marshall the dr. that was on call was probably my least favorite of the drs at my practice and I am thrilled with how he handled everything and I am actually requesting him to do my repeat c-section because of how smoothly my recovery went. (I don't know if that has anything to do with anything that he did, but I am hoping it was!)