So much faith in our Health Care System
Jun. 26th, 2008 02:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyWe took Molly to the doctor yesterday for a follow-up to her Great Big Harbor View Medical Trauma Center Adventure of last week because the doctors THERE had told us to take her to a doctor if we noticed anything peculiar about her behavior in the next week or so.
She's been blinking/squinting A LOT since the fall. Like, closing her eyes TIGHT for a second three or four times in a row. Also, rubbing her head and tight-blinking after she wakes up in the morning and after her naps. And she hasn't got much of an appetite. So off to The Doctor we went!
This doctor was one we have not been to before; he was a small, young-looking man made to look even younger by the out-of-place goatee facial hair he had grown (or possibly applied that morning with a Magic Marker so the older kids would stop picking on him). He approached Molly with all the warmth of...
...Let's say that there's a 19-year-old Frat Boy who has gotten in to a singles bar and "Hooked-Up" with an attractive woman for the night. He goes home with her, does his Frat-Boy Lovin' thing, then attempts to gather his clothes and sneak out of the house before his "Date" wakes up and tries to make him breakfast with a side of Long-term Relationship. But as he's tip-toeing across the livingroom in his tighty-whitees and backwards baseball cap, he bumps in to the 6-year-old DAUGHTER of his "Date" sitting in front of her morning cartoons and eating Cheerio's from a Winnie the Pooh cereal bowl.
He approached Molly with all the warmth of that Frat-Boy confronting that 6-year-old girl. It was awkward to say the least... and this was a PEDIATRICIANS OFFICE!!!
He seemed very distracted, asked us the same questions 2 or three times each ("Does she seem to have developed any ticks since the fall? Mmm hmmm... and how about after the fall? Any ticks or abnormal behavior? i see... how about abnormal behavior?") and then sent us away with a "Well if she develops any abnormal behavior or ticks in the next week or so give us a call and we'll, uh, scan her or something just to make sure".
And with that he was gone, off to trade Pokemon cards with the rest of his little friends.
I think we need a second opinion.
She's been blinking/squinting A LOT since the fall. Like, closing her eyes TIGHT for a second three or four times in a row. Also, rubbing her head and tight-blinking after she wakes up in the morning and after her naps. And she hasn't got much of an appetite. So off to The Doctor we went!
This doctor was one we have not been to before; he was a small, young-looking man made to look even younger by the out-of-place goatee facial hair he had grown (or possibly applied that morning with a Magic Marker so the older kids would stop picking on him). He approached Molly with all the warmth of...
...Let's say that there's a 19-year-old Frat Boy who has gotten in to a singles bar and "Hooked-Up" with an attractive woman for the night. He goes home with her, does his Frat-Boy Lovin' thing, then attempts to gather his clothes and sneak out of the house before his "Date" wakes up and tries to make him breakfast with a side of Long-term Relationship. But as he's tip-toeing across the livingroom in his tighty-whitees and backwards baseball cap, he bumps in to the 6-year-old DAUGHTER of his "Date" sitting in front of her morning cartoons and eating Cheerio's from a Winnie the Pooh cereal bowl.
He approached Molly with all the warmth of that Frat-Boy confronting that 6-year-old girl. It was awkward to say the least... and this was a PEDIATRICIANS OFFICE!!!
He seemed very distracted, asked us the same questions 2 or three times each ("Does she seem to have developed any ticks since the fall? Mmm hmmm... and how about after the fall? Any ticks or abnormal behavior? i see... how about abnormal behavior?") and then sent us away with a "Well if she develops any abnormal behavior or ticks in the next week or so give us a call and we'll, uh, scan her or something just to make sure".
And with that he was gone, off to trade Pokemon cards with the rest of his little friends.
I think we need a second opinion.
