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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you have health insurance?  Why would you not have a doctor for your child?  Yes, your child needs a doctor and yes it will be a pediatrician as that who sees patients that age.   You can easily find a female pediatrician.

You did have reasons to go the last 3 years...the annual well visits where they would have given her immunizations on schedule.  They do other things like eye and ear exams.  And they help build a relationship so the doctor is there when you need them and the child trusts them and doesn't feel the way your daughter now feels about her old pediatrician...that she doesn't want to go.[/quote]
We DO have one for her, as I mentioned in my post. We just haven’t been for a well-checkup since 2019. In 2020 they were only doing them for young babies, and we just didn’t go in 21-22. She hasn’t been sick. There was no need to go.

Now we need to go and she’d like a female doctor. [/quote]

But you were suggesting in your OP you'd just go to Walgreens to get shots and forgo having a regular doctor at all.  That is what people are responding to.[/quote]

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