Parents often have to call doctors for children at home. There are a lot of reasons: children get sick more often, diseases are more difficult to tolerate (usually with a high temperature), in addition, children are at risk for a number of serious infectious diseases, because they did not get sick earlier. An adult can rely on intuition, the experience of previous recoveries, but what about children? There is a reverent attitude towards children, rarely a parent agrees without a doctor’s decision to “feed” a child with a tablet from a TV ad. A loving parent wants to find the best doctor for his child.
Specialists of the service of recording patients in private clinics in Moscow and the region share little secrets on how to correctly and accurately find a children's doctor on the Internet.
The first and most important rule — Look not when “the roast rooster pecks”, but in advance. Do not stop there, go to a doctor for a preventive appointment in order to meet a doctor and introduce a doctor to your child. Ideally, after several preventive visits, you should exchange contact numbers with the doctor, as they say, "keep abreast."
“When we begin to measure the child’s temperature, and it is above 38 ° C, it’s too late to call pediatrics, in such cases we recommend that parents immediately contact an ambulance. We adults are used to consuming medicine in Russia on demand. Let’s be more prudent with regard to children: to engage in health prevention, rather than treatment, ”says Artem Kravchenko, Operations Director of Meds.
Second rule — Ask about your doctor’s profile until you’re in the doctor’s office. Most pediatric doctors have an adjacent profile and can be immunologists, virologists, gastroenterologists. This may affect the effectiveness of the prevention and treatment of the child. Specify the cost of admission, if we are talking about consulting a child, the features of admission and diagnostic capabilities of the clinic. An important fact is the possibility of calling a doctor home. This will save time on searching for a “family doctor”, a doctor who can provide the widest possible range of diagnostic and pediatric services at any time. The team of the Meds.ru recording service, for example, indicates in the additional information about the specialist the following - whether he accepts patients with home visits, and also indicates his related specialization or profile.
Third — reviews will not help you! The reason is that reviews are not written by patients (children), but by their parents (observers). Here, everything is individual, it all depends on the psyche of the child, his emotional state, the preparation of the parents for the procedures or examination of the pediatrician. Indeed, even a promise to buy candy can work a miracle, and the child will not have a memory of pain while drilling a tooth.Reviews about the admission of children should be taken as recommendatory instructive information: the features of preparation before a doctor’s appointment or diagnosis, the level of service in the medical institution as a whole.
Fourth — your child is your genes, take this factor into account, make an amendment to your medical record, no one knows the list of hereditary and chronic diseases in the family and parents better than you. This does not mean that your child will “continue family traditions,” but you should not recline the probability. It is extremely important when forming the selection criteria to make an adjustment for the health of parents, grandparents.
Fifth rule — writing down a child’s doctor, remember, you must clearly know which specialist is needed, or start an appointment with a pediatrician. You don’t need to rely on the advice of outsiders, operators and administrators of the clinic, you are a “damaged phone” for them, they cannot know for sure how a child’s “sore”. Parents often perceive the recommendation to start a visit from the pediatrician’s office as an additional way to make a clinic profit, this is an erroneous opinion, our fear and stereotype.
Andrey Brodsky
journalist, blogger
