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My kids' pediatrician doesn't believe kids should wear masks and he thinks everyone is totally overreacting. Where are you living that your doctor is acting like this?
Wow, this thread is just one more proof of how things have changed in the 50+ years since I was in school. Back then, kids had to be too sick to get out of bed to be allowed to stay home, and doctors' notes weren't required for their return except in very few circumstances.
It is amazing how many kids survived with so many teachers and parents who did not worry about slight fevers and runny noses. (And, yes, COVID is a good reason for many people to be paranoid now, but I am talking about teachers and parents of one year ago versus parents and teachers of 50 years ago).
And, yes, I do know that many people and other kids became sick because of this lackadaisical attitude, but people just accepted it, and I really do think that people and kids might have been hardier back then.
Kids and adults should have stayed home all of those decades when they were sick. Those who have weak immune systems didn't need you and your kids spreading diseases. Attitudes like yours is how things like the measles, mono, various flus, and colds spread like wild fire. Schools actually have to close down in cold/flu season because they can't get enough substitute teachers because teachers catch everything these kids come to school with. Not really nice to share your cooties with others.
My kids' pediatrician doesn't believe kids should wear masks and he thinks everyone is totally overreacting. Where are you living that your doctor is acting like this?
I too, think that doctors like Pediatricians who refuse to see sick patients are Cowards
that are holding onto a credential/office and collecting the money+hero worship, but not providing a service that people need. These doctors need to retire immediately and make room in the AMA for younger med students to assume the role that society needs. If you got to wear a hazmat suit, fine. The average _grocery store cashier_ sees a greater amount of the Unwashed Masses than a doctor in private practice.
Part of my criticism, comes from the fact that my own blood-relations are frontline nurses in hospitals, and are faced with a far greater, palatable risk with the disease a la mode of 2020 - because: if you call said Pediatrician and say "my child is sick" they tell you "Go to Urgent Care/ER". What do I even need said Pediatrician for?
In the case of changes for 2021, my employer's Health Insurance now offers an out for this Coronavirus situation, you can use tele-medicine + self diagnosis to certify your own annual physical, and you get a hard cash bonus for doing so.
(hey, What Could Go Wrong there? - LOL)
And there has never been a situation in which me calling my child's school district and talking over the phone wasn't good enough. They dont even want "a note" because school is remote-virtual anyways.
He's telling her to come when the mandatory quarantine period is over. He is following regulations as is the school. Doctors are nurses are among the largest group with infections. It sounds like a lot of people are illiterate and self-centered. If someone drives 55 on the highway with posted speed limits, they act like that person broke the law.
The other doctor with his opinions could write a note for her but the school would not be obligated to follow a request which clearly doesn't have the data on symptom onset and clearing to back it up.
Kids and adults should have stayed home all of those decades when they were sick. Those who have weak immune systems didn't need you and your kids spreading diseases. Attitudes like yours is how things like the measles, mono, various flus, and colds spread like wild fire. Schools actually have to close down in cold/flu season because they can't get enough substitute teachers because teachers catch everything these kids come to school with. Not really nice to share your cooties with others.
For many of us with full time jobs, not coming to work sick would exhaust so much PTO we would never be able to go on any vacations. Or even travel to see family. In a pandemic a don't-show-up-sick policy is reasonable, but at other times I don't think so. Unless you are willing to pay higher taxes for the government to do something about it, even if that costs money!
OK.....they are human too you know so of course they can catch a disease. Nurses, techs, CNA's also have died, in a larger numbers I'm sure. That is because we are literally in peoples face all day long. Many doctors work remotely right now, and when they are working they are not the once that are hands on with most patients. They are very smart and really good at diagnosing and telling their staff what to do though.
OK.....they are human too you know so of course they can catch a disease. Nurses, techs, CNA's also have died, in a larger numbers I'm sure. That is because we are literally in peoples face all day long. Many doctors work remotely right now, and when they are working they are not the once that are hands on with most patients. They are very smart and really good at diagnosing and telling their staff what to do though.
What I am saying is that doctors are doing their jobs, some of them getting sick and dying because of it. Anesthesiologists and other specialists who intubate patients are literally in patient's faces, too.
As of May - admittedly a long time ago in COVID-19 time - half the deaths among health care workers worldwide were physicians, the bulk of them primary care docs.
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