This question comes up at every visit with my children’s pediatrician. I always say “no” because it is none of their business. The last time the doctor was talking to my youngest about riding his bike. She asked him if he wore a helmet, and he was honest and said “no”. I told her that I gave up trying to get my boys, who are 12 and 13, to wear a helmet. She looked at my son, as if I weren’t sitting there, and said, “Well if I was your mother—if *I* was your mother, I wouldn’t let you ride your bike without a helmet. I would be worried about you getting a head injury.” I couldn’t believe what she was insinuating, and I could feel my cheeks getting red. She had been his pediatrician from birth, but that was the LAST straw for me.
Freaking lib.
During a check up with my teen the doctor told her that she was going to give her a hepatitis shot. I was not in the examining room with the doctor and nurse.
My daughter came out immediately to tell me that the doctor wanted to give her a shot without speaking to me first.
That was our last visit to that pediatrician who had been her doctor since birth. The doctor’s excuse........well she will be sexually active soon since she’s a teenager so the inoculation is imperative.
Suddenly the AMA believes they own our children.