Often, parents have to call doctors for their children at home. There are a lot of reasons: children are sick more often, diseases are harder to bear (usually with a high fever), besides, children are at risk of a number of serious infectious diseases, because they have not been sick before. An adult can rely on intuition, experience of previous recoveries, but what about children? The attitude towards children is reverent, rarely a parent will agree to “feed” a child with a pill from a TV advertisement without a doctor's decision. A loving parent wants to find the best doctor for their child.
The specialists of the service for registering patients in private clinics in Moscow and the Moscow region share small secrets on how to find a pediatric doctor correctly and accurately on the Internet.
The first and foremost rule is do not look for when “the roast cock will bite”, but in advance. Do not limit yourself to searching, go to the doctor for a preventive appointment in order to meet the doctor and introduce the doctor to your child. Ideally, after a few preventive visits, you should exchange contact numbers with the doctor, as they say "keep your finger on the pulse."
“When we start measuring a child's temperature, and it is above 38 ° C, it is 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 act more sensibly with regard to children: engage in health prevention, not treatment, ”says Artem Kravchenko, the operational director of the Meds.ru service.
The second rule is inquire about the doctor's profile until you arrive at the doctor's office. Most pediatric doctors have a related profile and can be immunologists, virologists, gastroenterologists. This can affect the effectiveness of prevention and treatment of the child. Specify the cost of admission when it comes to consulting a child, the peculiarities of admission and the diagnostic capabilities of the clinic. The fact of the possibility of calling a doctor home is also important. This will save time on searching for a “family doctor”, a doctor who can provide the widest range of diagnostic and pediatric services at any time. The team of the Meds.ru appointment service, for example, indicate in the additional information about the specialist the following - whether he accepts patients with a visit to the house, and also indicates his related specialization or profile.
Third - reviews won't help you! The reason is that reviews of the admission are not written by patients (children), but by their parents (observers). Everything here is individual, it all depends on the psyche of the child, his emotional state, the preparation of the parents for the procedures or examination by the pediatrician. After all, even a promise to buy candy can work a miracle, and the child will not have a memory of pain while drilling a tooth. Feedback on the admission of children should be taken as advisory instructive information: the peculiarities of preparation before an appointment with a doctor or diagnosis, the level of service in a medical institution as a whole.
Fourthly - your child is your genes, take this factor into account, make adjustments to your medical record, no one knows better than you the list of hereditary and chronic diseases in the family, in the parents. This does not mean that your child will “continue the family tradition,” but the likelihood should not be thrown back. It is extremely important in the formation of selection criteria to make allowances for the health of parents and grandparents.
The fifth rule is When making an appointment with a child's doctor, remember that you must clearly know which specialist is needed, or start the appointment with a pediatrician. You should not 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 the child “hurts”. Often, parents perceive the recommendation to start a visit from the pediatrician's office as an additional way of earning money for the clinic, this is an erroneous opinion, our fear and stereotype.
I am sure that experienced parents have a couple of secrets of their own and have already found excellent doctors for their babies. The features of the appointment and search for a doctor described above for your offspring are an outside perspective, from the side of modern appointment services that have entered our lives and made it easier and more accessible for us, parents, to find the right doctor. I would like to thank Meds.ru service, which gladly responded to the request to share their knowledge and secrets of recording and selecting a “good doctor”.
Andrey Brodsky
journalist, blogger
