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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel we am no longer getting good care. My daughter’s pediatric GI for example only sees patients in person once a week. All her other appointments are virtual. I understand seeing patients once or twice a week virtually, but four times a week? Isn’t this a lot? I feel with pediatrics especially a physical exam is impossible. My PCP still doesn’t see patients with respiratory symptoms in person. I’ve been coughing for more than a month now and they refuse to see me in person. Our kids pediatrician only has two hours dedicated for sick visits and they are from 3-5 pm. The rest are for well visit. The two hour time limit makes it virtually impossible to get an appointment. If a child has respiratory symptoms they push you to go to urgent care. In the grand scheme of things I know this isn’t a big deal but I feel like seeing a doctor in person for certain complaints is getting to be harder and harder. [/quote]

It sounds like you need to find better doctors’ offices. I have no problem getting next-day appointments with the pediatrician. Finding an office with mid-levels helps. I'm perfectly fine seeing an NP 90% of the time, and even for the remaining 10%, the mid-levels help spread the work around.

They never refused to see respiratory symptoms. That's insane. During some of covid's peaks, they tested the child in the car before having them come in the office.

Your pediatric GI doctor seeing patients virtually 4 days a week is... wild. Most doctors have drastically cut back on virtual appointments because they can't bill as much for them. Are you sure they aren't just booked solid for the in-person visit slots? I can't imagine any explanation for this. I suppose a physician that is doing procedures all-day might struggle to find time to leave the hospital or endo center, but even then I wouldn't expect more than a couple days like that per week. Plus I highly doubt pediatric GIs do nearly the volume of procedures that adult GIs do.[/quote]

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