What if a teenager refuses to see a doctor? (mother, raise, brother)
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Health is necessary. Let them pick the doctor. Provide them with a list of doctors that are covered by your insurance company.
Because doctors do things like check to make sure you are:
-walking properly (no pronation or supination)
-blood pressure, heart rate, lung & respiration function, irregular heart beats
-make sure ear, nose, sinuses, tonsils, and thyroid
My doctor caught my seasonal allergies. I didn't even realize it, I was just coping with the symptoms.
And of course you would have died if you hadn't stopped sneezing......
Our pediatrician will continue to see college students - mainly because they are familiar with their complete health history and many college kids are away from home so seeing the same doctor is offered as a convenience. That said, most kids I know (mine included) reached a point where they felt awkward in the pediatrician's office and we changed to family practice. Not a big deal.
Why would you feel awkward in a pediatrician's office?
Clearly that person has not matured yet if they are still worried about what others think of them!
OK so Im able to post on this thread, good. Anyway, as I tried to post last night and it didn't go through so I will try again.
From my experience physical exams are mandatory every year for school from grades K-12. Every year a student needs to get an annual physical exam and the school then has to get the paperwork saying the student got the exam. Maybe its different elsewhere, maybe in some places they don't require this but where Im from that's how it was when I was growing up. Also, from my experience college requires a physical exam. Before you start college anywhere in the USA a physical exam is mandatory and it has to be done within six months of starting college although its only required once, you don't have to get a physical every year while attending college like you do with school before college. Again, this is just my experience.
So anyway, in my original post Im talking about if a teenager refuses to see a certain specific doctor, not all doctors period. In particular, a teenager who does not want to see the pediatrician that they've been seeing since infancy. Especially if they're 18 because a pediatrician is not supposed to see people who are 18 and older. At 18 a person might be starting college and they have to get the physical exam required for college but it should not be done by a pediatrician, certainly not if the person is 18 or older. Somebody on this thread mentioned about a teenager not wanting to see a baby doctor, well that's what a pediatrician is, a baby doctor. A doctor for babies and small children. A pediatrician therefore is not qualified to see people who are 18 and older any more than a dentist is qualified to do heart surgery! So, the teenager might say, "Im 18 I will not see a pediatrician." And besides, the pediatrician shouldn't be seeing an 18 year old anyway and any pediatrician who does should be stripped of their medical license and sent to prison on criminal charges! After all, dentists can't do heart surgery and pediatricians can't see people who are 18 and older. There has to be strict guidelines in the medical field that have to be enforced as it is a very serious field.
Besides, a teenager might have certain criteria for what doctors they see. Among that criteria might be that they wont see a pediatrician, especially if they're 18 and older.
lol the entire medical field is not serious.
Any quack can be a doctor. I know more than most doctors do.
So you along with much of the other people on this thread agree with me but there's some parents that don't. There are some parents who have faith in a certain doctor and insist that their child see that doctor, or they think that the parent/child hierarchy includes choosing your children's doctors. Im addressing them.
Do I really need to point out ALL the nonsensical posts you have made on this thread??
Some are truly hilarious by the way. You know like saying "pediatricians can't see anyone over 18...the law is the law"
Except it isn't a law...isn't even a requirement.....like I said "non sense"
As for "my background" I am a health care provider and have been for over 20 years, I also have college age children....
You don't have to tell us your background because it is all too clear base on your posts here that:
A) You have no medical background whatsoever
B) You have no legal background whatsoever
C) You don't have 18 yo children of your own or know too many if you think the average 18 yo is going to pay for their own routine physicals out of pocket if they have the choice of letting mom and dad pay...
If what you claim is true about being a health care provider than what you say would carry some weight but this is the internet where anybody can claim anything. But, assuming that you really are a health care provider I will say this.
I've never been a doctor or a lawyer but have some common knowledge in those fields. For instance I do know that to work with patients at all you need a medical license. I also know that to get a medical license there are certain requirements. You obviously have to have the proper educational background, you have to have been through medical school, ect. There are other requirements such as not having a history of drug abuse and if you ever are found to be abusing drugs you will get your medical license revoked. Also, this is just common sense, that just because you have a medical license of some sort doesn't mean you can see any patient for any reason and that you can perform any medical procedure. As I pointed out before, a dentist cannot do heart surgery with their dental license which is a type of medical license. You say that dentists aren't physicians well how about dermatologists and eye doctors, they're physicians aren't they? Can they do heart surgery? It is important to have good medical guidelines and for them to be strictly enforced otherwise you can run into big problems. There was a case of people getting hair transplants at a clinic who were suffering complications from the procedure. After further research it turned out it was not doctors but garbage men who were doing the transplants. Garbage men were coming in on their off days to do the transplants and the doctors were in the back room counting the money. That's the kind of stuff that happens when medical guidelines aren't enforced.
I don't have any 18 yo children but I've been 18. At 18 I certainly made enough money to afford a routine physical from a doctor. An 18 yo might for whatever reason decide to pay for their own physical even if they have the option of mom and dad paying, maybe the 18 yo doesn't want to see the doctor that their mom and dad are sending them to and therefore wants to choose their own doctor that they pay for themselves. For me to see a doctor, I've got standards. I've got standards the doctor has to meet and I set those standards because Im the one seeing the doctor. After all I don't and never have chosen which doctors my mom and dad see or have set standards for them as to which doctors they see would have to meet, they've always made those choices themselves. Therefore I choose which doctors I see and the standards they have to meet, especially if I choose to exercise the option of paying for it.
If what you claim is true about being a health care provider than what you say would carry some weight but this is the internet where anybody can claim anything. But, assuming that you really are a health care provider I will say this.
I've never been a doctor or a lawyer but have some common knowledge in those fields. For instance I do know that to work with patients at all you need a medical license. I also know that to get a medical license there are certain requirements. You obviously have to have the proper educational background, you have to have been through medical school, ect. There are other requirements such as not having a history of drug abuse and if you ever are found to be abusing drugs you will get your medical license revoked. Also, this is just common sense, that just because you have a medical license of some sort doesn't mean you can see any patient for any reason and that you can perform any medical procedure.As I pointed out before, a dentist cannot do heart surgery with their dental license which is a type of medical license. You say that dentists aren't physicians well how about dermatologists and eye doctors, they're physicians aren't they? Can they do heart surgery? It is important to have good medical guidelines and for them to be strictly enforced otherwise you can run into big problems. There was a case of people getting hair transplants at a clinic who were suffering complications from the procedure. After further research it turned out it was not doctors but garbage men who were doing the transplants. Garbage men were coming in on their off days to do the transplants and the doctors were in the back room counting the money. That's the kind of stuff that happens when medical guidelines aren't enforced.
I don't have any 18 yo children but I've been 18. At 18 I certainly made enough money to afford a routine physical from a doctor. An 18 yo might for whatever reason decide to pay for their own physical even if they have the option of mom and dad paying, maybe the 18 yo doesn't want to see the doctor that their mom and dad are sending them to and therefore wants to choose their own doctor that they pay for themselves. For me to see a doctor, I've got standards. I've got standards the doctor has to meet and I set those standards because Im the one seeing the doctor. After all I don't and never have chosen which doctors my mom and dad see or have set standards for them as to which doctors they see would have to meet, they've always made those choices themselves. Therefore I choose which doctors I see and the standards they have to meet, especially if I choose to exercise the option of paying for it.
Untrue, as I explained earlier. Dentists have a different license. If they have an "MD" license, yes. Some eye doctors are optometrists, with a different license. Legally, any MD can.
Most 18 year olds wouldn't even know how to go about finding a doctor. I've raised two to well past that age now.
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