Outnumbered Two to One

I owe my pediatrician an apology.

Well, not so much my pediatrician because I never actually questioned his integrity to his face, instead I opted to express my indignation via the World Wide Web. Then today, after The Mother’s thoughtful comments regarding any unintentional phone features I may or may not have had installed on my home line that would have impeded my doctor’s attempts to return my call last Thursday night, I decided to go online and take a look at my plan.

Guess what I discovered when I did a little research in to the details of my AT&T phone bundle…a little something labeled Caller ID Name-Number Delivery Anonymous Call Blocking.

I also learned I have the ability to forward selected calls to my cell phone, put 30 numbers on speed dial, and personalize the ring tones of my preferred callers.

Who knew?

So my pediatrician is not a total heel after all. Although he did call us at 3 am once , from a party, but I forgave him for that.

Unfortunately I’m still in the process of switching doctors, since recently his office has taken some weird cost cutting measures. Rather than purchase vaccines to have on hand, they’ve been referring patients to the county health department to get their immunizations there. Or, patients can pay for the shots up front, out of pocket, then try to get their insurance to reimburse.

It’s a weird policy that’s resulted in my youngest being behind on his immunizations.

The doctor himself is fine, he’s been with the boys since they were born, and I hate walking away from his office since he’s familiar with our history and the kids and he knows us by our first names, but well…all things come to an end some time, don’t they.

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