10 Reasons to NOT Like Pediatrics
Obviously I favor the positives against the negatives here, but I have many colleagues who feel otherwise. Plus, there are things that make me glad that I also see adults. So here are the negatives:
- The smell in the room after the 2-year-old has squatted behind the exam table.
- Splinters. I hate splinters. Taking them out of a squirming kid is like threading a needle on a 4-wheeler.
- Parents threatening their kids with shots if they don’t behave. I don’t give shots to be mean.
- Strong stale cigarette smoke smell walking into a room of an infant whose parents smoke. Do they really think it doesn’t harm the child?
- The child who ran out of the exam room, out of the the office, and into the parking lot of a nursing home while I chased him. He spit on me when I caught him.
- Parents who don’t discipline children, letting them run wild in the waiting room and exam room.
- When you have to give parents really bad news (which fortunately happens rarely).
- Ear Wax.
- Having to answer the question: “how do I get my kids to obey me?” when you are asking yourself the same thing.
- “Three-Fer’s” - when a parent brings in three children simultaneously to be seen. Usually only one has anything worth bringing the child in to be seen.
September 11th, 2007 at 6:28 am
Brings new meaning to the word squatters.;)
September 11th, 2007 at 8:44 am
On the tough days, just remember to count those blessings (sometimes hard to recall when faced with the negatives). Have a blessed day, Dr. Rob!
September 11th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Are parents who threaten kids with a shot just for fun okay (or also a bad)?
September 11th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Number one on my list is crappy parents. Life for some of these little whipper-snappers is unfair.