When do you decide you need a new doctor? In the past year we’ve been to the hospital once, the ER three times, urgent care twice and the doctor’s office countless times! That’s a lot of medical care – and all of the visits except one justified some type of medical treatment. So today when I called the doctor’s office to ask a nurse a question – to see if we needed to see a doctor – and she told me there were no doctors or nurses on staff and I should go to urgent care … well, I decided we needed a new plan. So I called a pediatrician who works in an office of pediatricians. Because of their large staff of doctors they were able to fit Caleb in right away. We had to jump in the car to make it in time. (Instead of half a mile away, they are 15 miles away.)
So while I really liked Caleb’s small town family doctor – he always took the time to sit down and answer all my questions and he had a very matter of fact, no worrying way of looking at things – I really needed a doctor we could see on short notice. One that wouldn’t constantly refer me to urgent care and the emergency room. When your kid has an ear infection, you can’t wait till next Tuesday.