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~invisible~girl~ · 31-12-2008, 08:38 AM

I ended up getting to see my parents' doctor after all, cause I got my mom to call again, and he could see me this afternoon. And I'm really glad of that, cause beside it not being humiliating, he gave me prescription cough syrup, and basically told me that if it didn't work at the dose he prescribed, I could keep taking it until I started to get high off it, which definitely my pediatrician would never even consider telling me to take more than the standard dose of anything (although he gave me the kind that tastes really nasty, so taking another teaspoon every 15-20 minutes or so isn't so fun, and I've already had 5 teaspoons and it's still not helped at all...). Although the downside to being treated as an adult is that the doctor wanted to explain at a really basic level how respiratory infections work, and he didn't seem to get the hint when I kept finishing his explanations for him.

And Alice, you're supposed to still go to a pediatrician at 15 (or 16) as pediatricians treat adolescents, not just young children, because your body is still changing so from the medical perspective you're not an adult until about 18-20, and it's better for teenagers to be seen by a doctor that knows more about adolescent medicine than a regular GP.

31-12-2008, 08:38 AM	#5
~invisible~girl~ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: California	I ended up getting to see my parents' doctor after all, cause I got my mom to call again, and he could see me this afternoon. And I'm really glad of that, cause beside it not being humiliating, he gave me prescription cough syrup, and basically told me that if it didn't work at the dose he prescribed, I could keep taking it until I started to get high off it, which definitely my pediatrician would never even consider telling me to take more than the standard dose of anything (although he gave me the kind that tastes really nasty, so taking another teaspoon every 15-20 minutes or so isn't so fun, and I've already had 5 teaspoons and it's still not helped at all...). Although the downside to being treated as an adult is that the doctor wanted to explain at a really basic level how respiratory infections work, and he didn't seem to get the hint when I kept finishing his explanations for him. And Alice, you're supposed to still go to a pediatrician at 15 (or 16) as pediatricians treat adolescents, not just young children, because your body is still changing so from the medical perspective you're not an adult until about 18-20, and it's better for teenagers to be seen by a doctor that knows more about adolescent medicine than a regular GP.
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