I'm just curious if you think your pedi knows who you are. I just had an appt last week and she looked at his head and was like, "oh, it looks so much better." I was thinking, really? You remember his head before?
CP - does your pedi remember you? 151 votes
Probably not, they see hundreds of people a week
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Yes, but only in the context of the office
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Definitely, if I saw him/her on the street they would recognize me
Yes definitely - but I'm the crazy mother who keeps bringing her kid in saying "she just keeps crying and I don't know why" (yeah colic and reflux....) She sees us too much to forget I'm sure
Lol I just clicked yes and realized I read it wrong... I read it as my pedicurist. Lol she told me last time I was there that she thought my baby looked like my husband. Apparently she saw us in the grocery store but I didn't see her...
No idea if my pediatrician would recognize me as we switched to her at 3 months and she's only seen DD twice.
We go in with LO and if DS comes up in conversation, my pedi can basically recite his whole medical history. He also remembers me, DH, FIL, my mom, even when a large gap in time has gone by. Very impressive.
We see ours all the time too (tiny kid on her own growth curve plus a modified vax schedule and multiple specialists). That being said, I remember all of my patients...I have to hold back so I don't freak people out.
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Lol I just clicked yes and realized I read it wrong... I read it as my pedicurist. Lol she told me last time I was there that she thought my baby looked like my husband. Apparently she saw us in the grocery store but I didn't see her...
No idea if my pediatrician would recognize me as we switched to her at 3 months and she's only seen DD twice.
Hahahaha! My pedicurist most definitely remembers who I am. They are all Asian ladies and let me tell you, they were sooooooo excited I was having a boy. Before I found out the sex, they were all like, "you want a boy, right?!" They are all so nice.
I love our pediatrician! When DD was having serious reflux/food allergy issues, her dr would call from a personal cellphone after hours (even on a Saturday) because she was worried about M and didn't want to wait until the next business day to check in.
Ill tell you what's weird is running into your OB outside of the office.
Hahah! We ran into ours after we took lo in for his 4 month shots! I gave him a hug and was thinking... Your hands were wayyyyy up in there 4 months ago
We lucked out with our doc, he moved to town right as our old doc retired.....he has kept his practice very small and his wife is his Moa, if I phone in the morning, they are in that day....fabulous doctor.....
My pedi is actually a family doctor, he has seen me since I was a baby and he also sees my sister and her kids and my parents. He knows us all and always asks about my parents. I was still a little surprised that he knew me the first time we came in because it had been a few years since I had seen him.
Ill tell you what's weird is running into your OB outside of the office.
Hahah! We ran into ours after we took lo in for his 4 month shots! I gave him a hug and was thinking... Your hands were wayyyyy up in there 4 months ago
I really like my MWs...but we are so not in a hugging place. I feel like the physical boundaries are so non-existent in the professional relationship that it is even more important to have those boundaries in the personal relationship or it would just get really weird.
Ill tell you what's weird is running into your OB outside of the office.
Hahah! We ran into ours after we took lo in for his 4 month shots! I gave him a hug and was thinking... Your hands were wayyyyy up in there 4 months ago
I really like my MWs...but we are so not in a hugging place. I feel like the physical boundaries are so non-existent in the professional relationship that it is even more important to have those boundaries in the personal relationship or it would just get really weird.
Is that just me?
I think I was just nervous and panicked & hugged. Hahaha!
Ill tell you what's weird is running into your OB outside of the office.
Hahah! We ran into ours after we took lo in for his 4 month shots! I gave him a hug and was thinking... Your hands were wayyyyy up in there 4 months ago
I really like my MWs...but we are so not in a hugging place. I feel like the physical boundaries are so non-existent in the professional relationship that it is even more important to have those boundaries in the personal relationship or it would just get really weird.
Is that just me?
I think I was just nervous and panicked & hugged. Hahaha!
LOL I have been there. The panic hug is the worst... Then I always worry if it means I will always have to hug from then on.
My pedi yes but I work in the same building as him and we share mutual patients. Plus I'm pretty much the only Caucasian that comes. His entire staff speaks Japanese so they get most of their patients from that demographic.
Lo's pedi was my pedi when I was in my teens. She was a young new female doctor and I could talk to her about some seriously messed up shit I went through. But she knows my kids well and I have her cell phone number too. She's amazing , not super busy. A diamond in the rough.
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At LOs appt on New Year's Eve she apologized for being so sentimental but just wanted us to know how grateful she is that she is the doctor for our family an that she loves us. I was so floored! We love her!
Our pedi was mine and my sister'so pedi as well, and my sister still sees her. She is awesome and always calls to check up. She even came and visited in the hospital after LO was born even though it wasn't a hospital that she had privileges at.
We went to a large practice and rarely saw an actual pedi. For that, along with a host of other reasons, I have switched practices. But he hasn't had an appt yet, so I picked SS.
I am assured by all the DC workers, who all send their kids to this pedi (it shares a front door with DC) that I can get appts with a consistent dr and they are really good at remembering patients. So I picked SS.
I picked SS. We haven't seen our new family dr yet (you don't see a pedi unless your kid needs something more specialized). Our old team knew us though. Although it was a small town and I did work in the hospital ( Drs office was in the bsement of the hospital). My OB called me just before we moved. She had been thinking about us and just wanted to chat.
I voted SS because we switched practices at DD's four month appt and we saw a nurse practitioner because out new pedi was out. So we haven't had an actual appt with her new ped yet. Old probably wouldn't remember us either since he only saw her twice.
My DD and DS have different doctors. When I brought DD along to DS appointment the pedi mentioned that she hadn't met DD yet. I was impressed because she is the main pedi at our doctors office and sees tons of kids. I'm surprised she remembered me having another child.
He absolutely knows who we are. I see him at the gym and he always says hi. I would be annoyed if one of my doctors didn't know who I was. I think our pedi takes a special interest in us because he wants to set my girls up with his grandsons... I went to middle and high school with his son in law.
Everyone lives in the area, so I run into my OB, pedi, therapist, etc all the time.
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Re: CP - does your pedi remember you?
No idea if my pediatrician would recognize me as we switched to her at 3 months and she's only seen DD twice.
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I think I was just nervous and panicked & hugged. Hahaha!
But she knows my kids well and I have her cell phone number too. She's amazing , not super busy. A diamond in the rough.
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I am assured by all the DC workers, who all send their kids to this pedi (it shares a front door with DC) that I can get appts with a consistent dr and they are really good at remembering patients. So I picked SS.
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Our old team knew us though. Although it was a small town and I did work in the hospital ( Drs office was in the bsement of the hospital).
My OB called me just before we moved. She had been thinking about us and just wanted to chat.
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Everyone lives in the area, so I run into my OB, pedi, therapist, etc all the time.
DS born at 34 weeks with (surprise!) gastroschisis turned short bowel syndrome.
131 days in the NICU, 7 trips to the OR, G-button, daily TPN....