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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the recs and the commiseration. Kim was indeed who we saw yesterday. We also hate Lipschwe (do not care enough about her to get her name right) and the number of Lipschwe-discourages-breastfeeding stories I have heard is amazing.  Neutral on Garrett.

We picked this practice because of the good references from so many friends. We go to Premier for ourselves and had been considering switching child #2 to there but it seems like it could so easily be more of the same, what with many docs and a busy practice.  I also asked my FB friends about this and heard from one who has 5 kids and has lived around the country who thought that 2.5 of 6 docs you liked in a practice was a good ratio.

And thanks to the PP who posted about the effects of medical training. it's an interesting point. When I was in HS and considering becoming a doctor I shadowed a family friend who was a NICU doc and was shocked to see the "empathy slide" in the residents (not that I had a name for it, but they were so thoughtless you couldn't miss it--went to a meeting where the head doc had to remind them to wrap the babies back up in the fetal position after examining them and don't just leave them to flail about). Seeing how callously they treated those tiny babies really changed my life's path. I didn't want to ever be so sleep-deprived that I lost sight of the humanity of patients. I guess the same goes for busy practices. [/quote]

For every sick appointment I ask who is there and if Kim is one of them I say I do not want to see her. If enough people do this maybe someone will get the message.  I honestly don't know what I would do if just Kim was there but it hasn't happened.[/quote]

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