With workers freed from the tyranny of the workplace via the wonders of Obamacare, I don’t see where this is much of an issue anymore.
Young children have the uncanny knack of ONLY getting ill evenings and weekends.
If they’re Pediatricians, they ought to know this.
i’ve always said that the doctor or dentist who has a “2nd Shift” office with PM an Weekend hours would become a millionaire.
Most pediatricians are women, and they prefer to work certain hours. It would make sense to have a group practice, and have somebody rotate through covering weekends and evenings.
We have a Pediatric Urgent Care that our Pediatrician highly recommends. It has a Pediatrician on duty. Our regulate Pediatrician does frown on using the Urgent Care’s that have P.A’s on duty but understands that a parent has to do what a parent has to do. I for one am thankful for Urgent Care.
We have a Pediatric Urgent Care that our Pediatrician highly recommends. It has a Pediatrician on duty. Our regulate Pediatrician does frown on using the Urgent Care’s that have P.A’s on duty but understands that a parent has to do what a parent has to do. I for one am thankful for Urgent Care.
And how often do you get Marcus Welby or Dr. House on the first visit for an earache? Usually you're tossed some antibiotics for the first couple visits and then you'll start getting some more in depth examination for repeat problems. It's that way for adults and that way for kids.
The author is a nut job. It’s not about competition. Trusting your child’s health to evening and weekend medical clinics staffed by nurse practioners is foolishness. They don’t know your child’s medical history, don’t know what’s abnormal for your child, and are only treating the symptoms present at the moment.
If you establish a long-term relationship with your child’s pediatrician, they will take your phone call after hours and prescribe medicine/treatment or tell you that it’s serious enough for a trip to the ER - if you can’t figure that out on your own.
Was never an issue for me. If in my opinion the kid was sick enough to take him to the doctor then he was too sick to go to school and someone wasn’t going to work that day.
At least we had the luxury of being able to schedule an actual appointment time for my son. My poor mother had to sit for hours with me or my brother when we went to see the doc. The old horse doctor we saw had a first come first serve policy, it was up to you to keep up with who came in the door after you. Nothing like 20 people hacking, sneezing, babies crying, etc. sitting in the waiting room watching the Price’s is Right on a B&W T.V.
Minor Emergency type clinics are opening up all over Houston. Seems like everywhere you look a new one is being built.
Eight years ago I met a doctor who moved to Houston from El Paso and opened up a “cash only” clinic. He said he’ll make a lot more money with a lot less paperwork. I wish I had asked him for some stock tips.
I'm an old man and so my health history is more complex. My wife and I do have a regular doctor that we see. But for regular kid things such as ear infections, sports physicals, strep, etc.? Those Minute Clinics are wonderful.
Be very wary of anything the AAP says, because they are very leftist in orientation. They are far more interested in the socialist agenda than they are childrens’ health.
The conservative alternative is the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds).
The AAP has said that its members are “ethically” required to find out if parents have guns in their home, and that they may refuse service if parents refuse to say. And, of course, they annotate the answer into the childrens’ medical records, where they can be easily accessed by the government.
It has reached the point that parents need to determine the membership of their pediatrician ahead of time, and to reject those that are not ACPeds members. Otherwise you might be entrusting your child’s health to someone of questionable character.
When one is pretty sure what the problem is, why not go to a practitioner at the local drug store? It's better than needing an appointment and then having a doctor overprescribe medication "just in case".
It’s all well and good to say that a pediatrician can take better care of a child than a GP, PA, ERMD etc. and this is probably true. However all that expertise is of absolutely NO VALUE if it is not available WHEN IT IS NEEDED. Keeping bankers hours Mon-Thursday and refusing to be on call
or available nights and weekends while advising parents to avoid the
alternatives that are ACTUALLY AVAILABLE is the very height of conceit.
Till these petty assclowns are willing to step up and actually WORK they
need to STFU.