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NIce & understanding doctor, but rude nurses... what would you do?

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He is really understanding and tolerant towards our selective/delayed schedule, and so is the very awesome nurse manager. However the nurses themselves... Horrible. They make it clear they don't "approve" and were all annoyed when I was nervous when DS got his first shots. And even more annoyed we insisted on DS being upright and picking his own bandaid. And were rude when we insisted on not being in the state's registry.

 

I talked to the doc today and he said he's aware of those certain nurses and their behavior and that he has approached them before about this issue, but this is a teaching practice and he's a resident and hence can't fire them or anything. He might bring it up again after I said something today I assume. I could call the nurse manager who is super nice and special ordered Daptacel for me and is really a nice, nice, tolerant person to maybe have other nurses assigned to us when we do shots and to ensure we stay out of the registry. What do you think? I don't have much choices for delayed and selective vaccinating in town, first of we're with an insurance that isn't accepted everywhere and second there is little to no choice in town. The doc already said the local climate is rather... do it my way or no way and he's originally from CA and more used to "crunchy" moms (aka that I nurse or had babies at a birthing center is already sorta offensive to those nurses).

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IMHO - its HARD to find a pediatrician who is supportive of delayed vax and b-feeding  - i would tolerate the nurses - practice  some snarky responses  in advance to their rudeness - or just be prepared that you know their attittude is coming. - the Doc is the most important part of that equation.  Thats what i would do!

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