This is a blog about the frustrations of a pediatric inpatient practice. Some posts will be about kids, some about parents, some about "the system," and the rest about whatever I want to talk about.
Monday, February 24, 2014
I don't treat to order.
I am SO annoyed by parents who think they know everything. We occasionally get parents who decide, at home, what treatment their child needs. Since that treatment has to be provided by a doctor, they bring the kid in. Not to have the doc evaluate the kid and recommend a treatment course. Just to have the doc provide the treatment that the parents already decided they want. The parents get so pissed when I insist on examining the child and offering only appropriate treatments. Medicine has gotten so commercialized that people think they can just order whatever treatment they want.
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