Today was by far the last straw with going to this pediatrician's office. And what sucks is that it's not the pediatrician (except for his fondness of using steroids on babies) that has pissed me off, it's the others that work there.
Today, we went to get Austin's 3rd round of vaccines and was asked, kindly, by the medical assistant (hell, this whole time I thought she was a nurse) if we planned on doing the six month vaccines today, to which I answered, "Yes, but we'll just be doing the rotavirus and PPV today."
"Um, ok. Can you undress Austin and take off the diaper and place him on the scale."
"Ok."
At this point Austin is all squirmy because we've already been waiting 20 minutes in the room to get this appointment going.
"Um, I need you to lift him off the table so I can straighten out the paper."
"Ok, hold on a sec." Lift Austin.
"Um, I need you to lift him higher."
"Oh, sorry." Although the reply in my head was "reer".
She does the measurements and gives them to me. Holy shit. Austin is in the 97% for height. 97%. This is definitely from Scooter's side of the family.
"Which shots did you want to do today?"
"The rotavirus and PPV."
"Oh, ok."
To make a very long story short, she talked to me like crap and was totally rude once I told her I'd be splitting up the vaccines. I know what she's thinking, "Oh, she's one of those moms." And you know what I say to that? I say, yes, I sure as hell am. Because I'm not going to bombard my child with shots when we're pretty sure he won't be getting polio within the next week. Just a guess.
I should have done this in the beginning, the splitting up of vaccines.
There are some vaccines that should be administered, in my opinion, early on like the whooping cough and rotavirus, etc. But in all seriousness, the chances of Austin catching Hepatitis B (um, if he did he'd have some serious explaining to do) or Polio are so extremely slim. So, I highly doubt spacing them out over a period of two weeks or even a month would impact him other than giving his little body a break.
Seriously, this "medical assistant" was so rude that I almost wanted to call Dr. H myself and tell him, but didn't and won't because we won't be going back there to get shots done.
P.S. The "medical assistant" also wrote in our immunization record book that Austin had the Hepatitis B vaccine at the 4th month check up when he did not. Sorry, but I'm not trusting her to stick needles into my baby anymore. We will be going to the naturopathic doctor for the rest of vaccines.
2 comments:
What a horrible experience for you and Austin! You are so right, the entire medical office needs to be competent in his car, not just the doctor. Vaccine spacing is very common these days, and they should be open to your choice on that.
And that's exactly why we need both private and government choices in our healthcare.
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