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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, are you the problematic parent or the reasonable one?[/quote]

The reasonable one. I'm just trying to understand the implications.

I want someone to be able to work with both parents and I'm trying to better understand if this is a parent issue or a doctor issue.

Obviously it's easier to only communicate and coordinate with one person. But I would think this is somewhat normal and find the request a little odd. They didn't elaborate, only to say the other parent paints a very different picture of the situation.

I understand the importance of continuity of care, but again- communicating treatment plan to multiple caregivers isn't that unusual. [/quote]

What kind of doctor is this? We have a therapist who coordinates with 3 parents - all together. Me, Step-dad, and Dad. All 3 of our inputs are taken seriously and responded to. This includes when dad wasn't convinced that child even needed the therapy (we started out with intensive, 3x/week, family therapy because my son was in an extended behavioral health crisis).

I think you could start with asking the provider why they only want to work with one parent going forward, since your child needs support from both parents at home (whether you are in a single home, or care is divided between 2 homes if you're divorced), and you want to make sure that you aren't always* the messenger between the doctor and the other parent.

*I say always because sometimes you will be at an appt that the other can't make, and will have to explain what happened/was decided later. [/quote]
Don't bother fighting with somebody who has a position of power over you. I had a bad feeling about a doctor and suppressed it and ended up deeply deeply regretting it. It turned into a literal life or death situation. Run, don't walk.  Doctors can be incredibly petty and evil and they have incredibly fragile egos and entitlement complexes. When they do crappy things like lie it is almost impossible to get justice because people by default believe the doctor and what they wrote in the notes over the patient. [/quote]

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