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With a big weekend coming up, this was just what the doctor ordered...
...Such a collaboration would encourage student involvement with AIDS activism, Hildebrand said. Farmer also encouraged students to become involved. “This is your generation. Figure it out.” Farmer said. “Don’t ask me. I’m just a doctor...
Take the time I went in for my son's four-month check up. After the requisite poking and prodding, the doctor consulted my child's chart and casually noted that his head was growing very quickly and that we should "keep an eye on that." Then she was gone...
...called the doctor for follow-up, but she was unavailable. Hours later, a nurse rang to say the doc was too busy to talk--and there was really nothing more she could tell us anyway. Hello? The woman to whom I had entrusted my firstborn child's physical well-being had just breezily raised the specter of his winding up like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Even if she didn't have any answers, she should have had the decency to call me back...
That said, at least my old doctors never lied to me (at least, not that I know of), which is more than I can say for my friends' peds. Last fall a handful of us wanted to get our tots flu shots without the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, which some people suspect is a risk factor for autism. Still searching for a new pediatrician, I asked a friend's doctor about the issue and was assured that kids' flu shots never contain thimerosal. A second friend was told the same thing by her doctor. It was very comforting--and very...