pediatrician interview

By mike

we’re going on our first pediatrician interview today.  we will be asking a host of questions to find out if this pediatrician is the right one for us.  it appears that there are not many pediatricians near us, though, so if this one doesn’t work out, then we may have to go farther than we would like to visit the doctor.

that being said, growing up, i remember that i had to go almost an hour away to visit my pediatrician.  the doctor’s office was far away, but he was referred to us by someone because he had specialized in some kind of skin condition that i had had back then.  i would get these unexplained rashes and he would treat them symptoms.

i really hated doctors growing up.  i remember this one time i was crying so hard because i had to get a shot while at the doctor’s office.  so traumatic.  i don’t know how a parent will be able to comfort a child and make the child not be scared of the doctor.  it must be such a scary experience.