Tom and I met our potential pediatrician tonight…and after a somewhat interesting start, it ended well.
She is about 15 minutes away—which isn’t that far, honestly—but it feels like quite a distance since most things are a bit closer to us. We pulled into a huge medical building with hardly any cars, which kind of worried us…although I suggested that maybe since this was her late night, everyone else was already gone.
We walked into the building and it was under construction and there were no signs, so we just wandered a bit. The office we needed was on the opposite side of the building—and we noticed a lot of cars in the rear parking lot…so we obviously just parked on the wrong side.
Anyway, we checked in about 10 minutes before our scheduled appointment and sat down to wait in the tiny waiting room, interested at how long we’d have to wait (one of our questions). Unfortunately, by the time we were called back to a room AND the doctor came in, we had waited about 40 minutes (30 minutes past our scheduled time).
She apologized, saying that apparently a lot of people were sick… and they take walk-ins which is why they were a little behind. Well, I didn’t like them being behind, but I was thrilled they take walk-ins! She said they schedule 30-minute appointments so she has plenty of time with each patient, plus it gives her time to take walk-ins or return phone calls…things which we both liked.
She also takes questions via email and is always available via pager.
Oh, and the offices under construction are hers. YAY! A brand new, larger, office!!
So overall we were happy with her.
Phew!