Do you always follow the doctor's exact orders when...?

Question

Do you always follow the doctor’s/pediatrician’s exact orders when it comes to pregnancy or parenting or do you pick and choose what orders you follow and which you don’t?

Answer 1

I follow the doctor's exact orders OR I tell him/her why I'm not going to do so. Don't sit there and nod mutely when the doctor makes a recommendation or writes a prescription, then grumble to yourself on your way out to the car and tear it up. Speak up in the office, or call later for a follow up appt - or if you can't resolve your beef, see another provider.

Please, if you're not going to do as the doctor says, let them know so they can understand when you come back and your problem hasn't resolved or a new one has cropped up or you have side effects from the home remedy, herbs or homeopathic remedy you've taken.

This doesn't have much to do with your particular question, Lindsey, it has more to do with a few answers on this thread and some others. So given that I have to say: the anger toward health care providers like doctors and nurses really gets on my nerves. We are doing it because we want to help people. Depending on our specialty, we get punched, kicked, bitten, spit upon, shat on, peed on, vomited on, we are exposed to MRSA, VRE, C-Diff, EColi, TB and various other illnesses. We risk needlesticks from the confused, the elderly, the demented, the disturbed, the drunk and the young who fight us. We take time away from OUR families and friends to take responsibility for watching over you, your spouses, your friends, your parents and your children 24 hrs a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. If something goes wrong, we are responsible and we know it, the weight hangs over me all day, every day. I think about my patients when I go home and often call the next shift to see how they are doing.

We see people born, sicken, rally and die over and over and over again, the worst of us become hard and jaded, the best of us become intuitive and wise. We are a part of their lives in a way that most people don't understand and most of us wouldn't trade it for anything. At work I get tears of gratitude, gifts of food and heartfelt cards and letters of thanks. On the internet I encounter suspicion, resentment, judgment and outright hatred and I just don't understand it.

I hope nothing bad ever happens to those who disdain the medical profession. Because I KNOW without a shadow of doubt that when your spouse in a car accident or your mom suffers a stroke or your child is bitten by a spider or falls in a pool and stops breathing- then - oh THEN - you will need me and my fellow health care providers and suddenly all our years of training and expertise just might come in handy. If that does happen I won't even say I told you so, I'll take care of you and your family with the same skill and compassion I give everyone. Because that's my job, I'm a nurse.

And if you don't like what the doctor recommends, find one more in line with your philosophy. Aside from the numerous alternative therapists there are the traditional providers such as PAs, NPs, CNMs, DOs, MDs, who are all licensed to prescribe medications, see patients, diagnose, treat and work in an office or hospital setting.

Answer 2

Ha I would say I have to pick and choose... my doc told me that b/c my son wakes up about twice a night, that instead of giving him a bottle to let him cry till he goes back to sleep. Is it so wrong to give your child a bottle? I don't see why not?! Sometimes he doesn't eat as much as I want him to during the day... and I think the bottle helps him at night. He is 14 months and he still wakes up atleast once a night for his bottle. Oh she told me not to give him a bottle to go to bed... even though he doesn't drink bottles during the day, just at bedtime and once during the night. I don't see a problem with the bottle. yes he will be getting off of it by two hopefully, but I will not let my child cry just b/c she thinks he might not be hungry just addicted to the bottle. So i say choose your battles with the doc.. sometimes they are not always right... sometimes they are just plain retarded on some cases. ok I just read baby rn's response, not to be mean or anything but I am seen by a military doctor, they see hundreds of patients a day and i barely get my 15 mins with them. Even when I tell them I need more time to talk about problems and try to tell them that I don't really want to follow their advice b/c of this or that... and they tell me "sorry that you don't think you should follow my advice, I am very busy and have stated what you should do, i'm sorry i have nothing else to tell you about your problem" then they leave me alone in the room and go to their next patient. I have had my son's doc, at 4 months say that they person who did his circumsion did it wrong and she was going to have to push down and tear it abit... ok... she gave me no meds didn't tell me that he was going to hurt every time he peed and gave me no advice, while she did this i turned white b/c my son is screaming bloody murder and she just smiles and him and continues... she acted like she had no feelings for my son. Then after it wad done and he had white cream coming from where she pulled it down and some blood she looked at me and just said " just put a fresh diaper on him and take him home, he should be fine in a few days" then when I tried to ask about pain, medicine and that crap she looked at me and said nothing was needed to be done for him. Holy cow! I would appreciate the freaking doctors more if they cared about my son. And I have switched his doc more than once and they all give me the brush off i have told higher ups but apparently they don't care also. I'm sorry to go on and on.. but i have bad experience with most of my docs... the only good one was my midwife that I had during my second pregnancy. I could tell more horror stories but I will leave it at that. That is probably why some ppl have no respect for doctors and nurses now a days.

Answer 3

well i have to go to and take my daughter to a military hospital. ive had such bad experiences with the doctors and ive tried extremely hard to be moved to an off post doctor but the insurance wont let me. they have mis diagnosed my daughter SEVERAL times, they have over dosed her on Tylenol, and in general most of the doctors there just dont care, so no, of course i dont follow all of their orders, im afraid to. sometimes i question why i even go back there but if i didnt and something was to seriously go wrong with my daughter it would be my fault.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I pick and choose based on the doctor's experience and my own research. Doctors aren't parenting experts. Nor are they gods. They're trained to diagnose and treat specific medical conditions. They have their own biases and personal baggage. And some doctors are just better than others.

Doctors aren't trained and often aren't self-educated on sleep habits, breastfeeding -- that's a half a class at *best* during medical school -- infant and child nutrition, etc. For breastfeeding and nutrition, I consult people who specialize in those fields -- lactation consultants and nutritionists -- if I need to. For parenting questions, I consult those parents who I respect and who have healthy attachment parenting styles. Most of all, I listen to my instincts and my children. 90% of my parenting comes from those two sources.

Answer 6

I would have to say that I do follow the doctor's orders when it comes to mine and my family's health. I reason that I am paying the doctor for his/her advice, guidance and experience. I don't want to take risks with the health of the ones I love. I am comfortable asking our doctors to explain or clarify medications and procedures that they want us to try.

Answer 7

I followed exact orders but that was because I am a diabetic. If you are completely healthy than I would see what he had to say and go with your judgment.

Answer 8

Pick and choose. It's all about what you personally believe in. My doctor told me to walk for 30 min a day 3 times a week. I didn't do that, and my pregnancy was fine. I love my peditrician because he gives me all of the info. and lets me decide what to do about it. He gives me the pros and cons and there are pros and cons to everything. It's a matter of weighing the pros and cons to decide which is better for you and your family.

Answer 9

mainly i do follow my doctors orders..but there was a couple times i did not....here is one of them.......

when i was pregnant with my 2nd daughter....my ultrasound showed that the umbilical cord was "straight, not coiled". my doctor told me that i should be thinking about terminating my pregnancy because straight umbilical cords are signs that there is something horrible wrong with the baby and that death usually occurs to the baby before birth or during birth and other things could be wrong with the baby. i DID NOT listen to my doctor and i went on with my pregnancy, i even had nurses telling me that i should seriously consider terminating the pregnancy. (which makes me so mad now to think about it)
THANK GOD, i did not listen to them or even consider what they was suggesting to me.....cause i was blessed with a perfectly healthy beautiful baby girl.....no complications at all at birth! (she is now 7 months old, my little angel!!)

Answer 10

For the most part I follow the dr. but sometimes I have to go the opposite way. I had a student dr. tell me to put my one year old in time out.