Originally Posted by CraftyMom:
Wait, I want to add...We are not doctors. We can not accurately say for certain what is or is not something to worry about. We can not look at a rash and say "oh no big deal".
These kids are in OUR HOMES with illness! How about we send all of our "not really sick kids" to the Dr's home to hang out all day, wiping their noses on his furniture and spreading their germs everywhere?! Maybe he'll think differently about it then.
I guarantee if the majority of providers did this, we would be the ones getting blamed for the spread of illness (more than we already are) instead of being praised for keeping the kids out of the doctors office and keeping the parents in work like the article suggests.
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Another funny story...... Years ago, with my first pediatric doctor, before she had discovered I ran a child care. My children were sick with cocksackie virus, which they had gotten from a dirty bubbler in a gym. The first question the good doctor asked, "Do they attend child care? Child care's tend to spread a lot of germs." Well....you can imagine the look on her face when I told her that I ran a child care, needless to say she was not our pediatric doctor long after that. Lol!
This was the same doctor's office, that regardless of what I brought my children in for, would end up sick with something new, 1-3 days after our visit.
Some doctor's are just quacks!
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