I am wondering if you would switch doctors. I started out with our family doctor and he was fine with us not vaccinating. But he had limited office hours and it was getting frustrating to call on a Monday for an appointment and not get in until Thursday or call Wed and not get in until the next Monday. So I switched.
The new doctor at first acted like she was ok with no vaccinating, but then, at the last visit, said she needs complete records for ALL of my children. I have 5 children. The oldest is almost 16 yrs old. Outside of the oldest, none of the children have had anything worth mentioning medically. All those medical records would mean printing of...oh, 47 years worth of records if you add all my childrens ages together. Why would anyone want that? Plus, she gave me a copy of Dr Sears alternative vaccination schedule. Ok, I felt that schedule was a crock and have no intention of following it. She says we will discuss it next visit.
I cannot help but feel, when she wants that much detail on my children's lives and history, that she is impending on my privacy. I would understand if she wanted to information on something specific or any current health problems. But since we are talking perfectly healthy children with normal growth charts and a record that will simply be full of stuff like sinus infection here and strep there (things every single child has at some point in their lives) there is no point. I did provide her with shot records and growth charts for the children, sent over directly from the doctors offices. If I have to provide anything else, it will involve me having to pay large amounts of money to pull records from archives. We have been with that family doctor exclusively since 2004 so every other doctor we have ever seen as archived the records. One office told me that I would have to pay $25-25 per child just for shot records. Fortunately, we had only been there for a couple years total and found that the only shot records there had already been forwarded to the family doctor and got the records from there. I have never had a doctor expect to have every single child's records all the way back to birth.
SO, I cannot help but feel like, privacy violated. I do not think she needs to know that my child was constipated in 1997. Or that my other child had strep in 2002. Or so on. No other doctor along the way has ever asked for this stuff. We had one doctor in a town we lived until Aug 1995. The first child was born Nov 1994. Then, we were with that doctor, but went to a different doctor for a year or two to follow our usual doctor when she left that practice. We returned to the practice after a little while of not wanting to drive that far. None of our records went with her but she still did not tell us she needed copies. Then, in 2003, we had it with that practice (think stuff like Ezzo parenting advice and giving my child a Hep A shot without my permission and trying to give my other child a Chicken Pox shot without my permission, this was before Hep A or Chicken Pox were even on the list of ones for school, they were still new). We switched to a different practice. That practice never asked for anything. But the doctor had a baby a year later and ended up not coming back to work. So, I took my children to my family doctor. He never asked for their records. We had been there until recently. This history is not as bad as it sounds. I am recalling doctors over the course of 16 years and 3 moves (meaning, we have lived 4 places during this time)
SO, would this bother you? I feel an invasion of privacy that she wants everything going back 16 years. I think I am going to start by not sending the teens to her afterall. That is for sure. But as far as the rest of the children, should I just look elsewhere? (and it sounds like she is trying to push the vaccination issue and said we would discuss it next visit).
The new doctor at first acted like she was ok with no vaccinating, but then, at the last visit, said she needs complete records for ALL of my children. I have 5 children. The oldest is almost 16 yrs old. Outside of the oldest, none of the children have had anything worth mentioning medically. All those medical records would mean printing of...oh, 47 years worth of records if you add all my childrens ages together. Why would anyone want that? Plus, she gave me a copy of Dr Sears alternative vaccination schedule. Ok, I felt that schedule was a crock and have no intention of following it. She says we will discuss it next visit.
I cannot help but feel, when she wants that much detail on my children's lives and history, that she is impending on my privacy. I would understand if she wanted to information on something specific or any current health problems. But since we are talking perfectly healthy children with normal growth charts and a record that will simply be full of stuff like sinus infection here and strep there (things every single child has at some point in their lives) there is no point. I did provide her with shot records and growth charts for the children, sent over directly from the doctors offices. If I have to provide anything else, it will involve me having to pay large amounts of money to pull records from archives. We have been with that family doctor exclusively since 2004 so every other doctor we have ever seen as archived the records. One office told me that I would have to pay $25-25 per child just for shot records. Fortunately, we had only been there for a couple years total and found that the only shot records there had already been forwarded to the family doctor and got the records from there. I have never had a doctor expect to have every single child's records all the way back to birth.
SO, I cannot help but feel like, privacy violated. I do not think she needs to know that my child was constipated in 1997. Or that my other child had strep in 2002. Or so on. No other doctor along the way has ever asked for this stuff. We had one doctor in a town we lived until Aug 1995. The first child was born Nov 1994. Then, we were with that doctor, but went to a different doctor for a year or two to follow our usual doctor when she left that practice. We returned to the practice after a little while of not wanting to drive that far. None of our records went with her but she still did not tell us she needed copies. Then, in 2003, we had it with that practice (think stuff like Ezzo parenting advice and giving my child a Hep A shot without my permission and trying to give my other child a Chicken Pox shot without my permission, this was before Hep A or Chicken Pox were even on the list of ones for school, they were still new). We switched to a different practice. That practice never asked for anything. But the doctor had a baby a year later and ended up not coming back to work. So, I took my children to my family doctor. He never asked for their records. We had been there until recently. This history is not as bad as it sounds. I am recalling doctors over the course of 16 years and 3 moves (meaning, we have lived 4 places during this time)
SO, would this bother you? I feel an invasion of privacy that she wants everything going back 16 years. I think I am going to start by not sending the teens to her afterall. That is for sure. But as far as the rest of the children, should I just look elsewhere? (and it sounds like she is trying to push the vaccination issue and said we would discuss it next visit).
