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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seeing patients as a provider is an incredibly rigid career and hard as a mother.  there is no "oh sure , I can come in and read to my kindergartener's class next Friday."  no, those patients were scheduled 6 months ago.  [/quote]

MDs are in control of our schedule and yes we can move patients. It happens all the time. It happens to me when I see my own doctors. No big deal, we all know we have families. 
NPs are not allowed to move patients unless they go through the MD and we do try to accommodate when possible. 
The majority of docs are able to be at all the parent events they want to attend, though it helps to be highly organized and aware of how the school schedule works, ask at the beginning of the school year and block accordingly. One of my kids had doctors (and a dentist) as the room mom many years. I did it for my other child for two years. My colleague who is a single dad doc did it one year. [b]Being a mom or a dad and a doctor is no less compatible with family life than a lawyer or engineer or professor. [/b]Gone are the days when one is the only doc in a group or one of two and on call all the time and running to the hospital. Those who work in hospitals swap call or shifts with colleagues all the time for kid stuff or other reasons. [/quote]

I mean …being a lawyer isn’t all that “compatible”…[/quote]

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