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Originally Posted by AnotherTouchOfWhimsy
The pediatrician did have an on-call service and I usually used it. In fact, one of the doctors would go to the office for a few hours on the weekend days to see sick kids. I don't remember why we ended up at the ER that day instead of at the dr's office; it was a long time ago.  I do remember being instructed to head directly to the ER when the same kid had a reaction to shellfish (turns out she's allergic) and once in the evening when my son was suspected of having testicular torsion (turned out he didn't, thankfully). Even when my daughter sliced her forehead open as a toddler, they took her in the office (said to head to ER if I couldn't get the blood to slow in 5 minutes, otherwise, head to them) and also on a weekend when my infant son had hand-foot-mouth virus and had a high fever. I wish all doctors were like that practice! |
That pretty much sounds like the office where I worked.
And your ped is right that we (pediatrics providers) do like to keep kids out of the ER as much as possible. (Your previous post) They (ER docs) don't know your kid, their histories, or your family. They have to do a lot of tests that likely wouldn't be done in an office to a patient known to the provider. Little babies who go to the ER with a high fever with no obvious cause often end up with spinal taps and the like.
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