Now that things have calmed down.......

[sanantoniosooner]

I may have to give our pediatrician the boot.

Let me know what you think.

We took our son in to see the guy and he prescribed some stuff and sent my son home. Here's the thing. With asthma, they listen for a rattle in there a lot of times. If they don't hear it, they move on. But there comes a point that the chest is so restricted that you don't hear anything at all. This is what the emergency room found only 1 hour after the appointment with the pediatrician.

It was nearly a day of treatment before they could even hear his breathing with the stethoscope.

The dude is a really nice guy, but he's pushing 70 and I think it's time to move on to someone that is a little more up with current info and perhaps not senile.

I know mistakes happen, but I just don't get this one. When it's so painfully obvious to the pharmacist and we get immediately pushed to the front at the emergency room and then moved immediately to PICU, how could he miss it?

I think we'll move him over to our family care physician, that we've been very happy with, and have him do a referral to a pediatric pulmonary specialist.

Anyone think I'm overreacting?

[NormanPride]

Without knowing more about the situation, I'd say no. You just can't mess around with your son's health, and one strike is all it takes to make a change. I'd give your FCP a call to see if he advises changing to him, or if there's a good pediatrician that he knows.

[soonerhubs]

Fair enough. Besides if he's that senile, he probably won't remember you if you ditch him.

[SoonerInKCMO]

If you had let your son sit out in the car while you picked up his prescription and the pharmacist hadn't seen his condition and convinced you to go to the ER, what would've happened to your son? I think the answer to that question will let you know whether you're overreacting.

[sanantoniosooner]

If you had let your son sit out in the car while you picked up his prescription and the pharmacist hadn't seen his condition and convinced you to go to the ER, what would've happened to your son? I think the answer to that question will let you know whether you're overreacting.
Well, I don't know about if it was up to me. My wife's spider sense was tingling and I don't think she could have let it go long without pushing some more. You just don't know how long you have to right the wrong.

Thank God she uses her wifely powers for good as well as evil.

[Okla-homey]

Physicians, like airline pilots, should have mandatory retirement IMHO.

So should Joe Pa, but I'm afraid he's gonna have to vapor-lock and careen into the Gatorade bucket headfirst before he leaves Penn State.

[Osce0la]

Some doctors refuse to go with more up to date techniques. I had an eye doctor that refused to let me get contacts when I was younger simply because he didn't like letting people get contacts. I refused to wear glasses while playing football, so we went to another doctor (this doctor's son) and got some contacts. Point is, older doctor may not want to get more up to date with his techniques (get more technologically advanced), I'd say you're not overreacting.

[frankensooner]

We changed our kids' pediatrician when he said we shouldn't give our kids milk. You should seriously change.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Doctors can get tunnel vision and not look past the "normals or expecteds" as they treat a familiar patient. Happened to my Dad. His long term cardiologist never did the diagnostics we wanted on Dad. He wasn't sleeping well, he was constantly tired and he was sleeping at all times of the day, was weak, couldn't walk 100 feet without resting. He has a mitral valve issue, but it wasn't worsening. Nothing... no tests or anything. So Dad goes to the Summer house (my siblings and I are thinking swan song and last Christmas with him). He gets worse and goes to a new doctor in the Summer House town. So what did they find, after a series of blood tests and cultures, they find he had infectious endocarditis, sepsis and a red blood cell abnomality that may be linked to bone marrow abnormalities. After 4 weeks IV antibiotices and some other drugs, he is much better, has energy and is doing things.

My take - Find a new Doc!!!!

[olevetonahill]

Change, after you kick his asz

[tbl]

You can never overreact to stuff like this if we're talking about our children. You don't mess around when it comes to the kids...

[TexasSooner01]

You can never overreact to stuff like this if we're talking about our children. You don't mess around when it comes to the kids...


I agree totally!

[WILBURJIM]

We changed our kids' pediatrician when he said we shouldn't give our kids milk. You should seriously change.
Hmm. We changed our son's pediatrician when he told my wife we should feed him cow's milk when he was not porkin' out in his first few months. Her instinct was to breast feed, so she continued. The doc was afraid he was not getting enough nutrition from my "thin" wife. Well, he is one of the tallest in his 6th grade class, so what the hell do doctors know?

SAS, I'd find another pediatrician. One you're comfy with. Doc's don't like people switching around but, too bad, you gotta do what is right for you.