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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcasts for
the week of May first, twenty twenty

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three, from Catherine he Leco and
a Mere Rhyth Nicole Heretics. Hello.

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Every week we chat about what parents
are talking, complaining, and obsessing about

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right now. This week we're short
one podcaster as Terry recuperates from surgery and

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we force her to take a few
days off, so we thought we'd look

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back at some of our past discussions
on encounters with sickness, health, and

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healthcare. Today's chat is originally from
twenty eighteen. Now. Lately, I've

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had to choose new doctors a few
times. We've been switching around insurances.

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I think we're on our third insurance
within about a year and a half,

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and everyone has different choices to make, and so I'm trying to think of

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different criteria for doctors. And I'm
really really tempted to go to one that

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has like all the availability, that's
just opened seven days a week, they're

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open late. They're one of these
urgent care places that you can also choose

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as your primary care physician. And
even though I'm not sure it's the right

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choice for us in terms of personnel, boy the idea of just being able

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to go to the doctor whenever you
want to is really appealing after so many

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times of like being sick and calling
and my doctor is closed today, and

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my doctor is closed tomorrow, and
if you're still sick on Friday, you

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can come in, but only in
these times. And so I thought we

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would talk today a little bit about
doctors and flexibility of hours. Is that

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an important thing? Am I crazy
to be choosing a doctor based on office

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hours? Should? I? Are
there so many things that are more important

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than that? Or really, is
being able to go to the doctor when

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you're actually sick or hurt kind of
an important thing? Katherine? I know

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you've had some experience about doctors and
availability. What's your thoughts on this?

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Yeah, well I've had I've had
the good extreme and the bad extreme.

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So our family doctor that we've always
had since we moved here. Um,

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you know, when you call up
for like a wild child appointment or whatever,

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you might have to wait usually know
more than a couple of weeks,

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I would say, And that's not
you know, that's fine because it's not

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urgent, but if you ever need
um, if you do need help urgently,

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they're very good about getting you in
um, you know, even on

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weekends or whatever. You know,
I've called up and woken up in the

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morning and said, oh, I
know I have pink ey like I can

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feel it. I can feel it
and call it up and they said,

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can you you can come in in
an hour. You know, like they're

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they're really good that way, and
sometimes it's a nurse practitioner, but I

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totally that's fine. You know,
they're they're great. But on the other

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end of the spectrum, we have
the orthodontist, which we basically didn't have

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much choice in the practice. And
well that's not true. We had one

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practice that we had through our insurance
and it was far away. It was

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like a twenty five minute drive and
you know, you have to go all

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the time when kids have braces,
you're there like feels like once a week.

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So I was like, this is
not going to fly. So I

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did find another one that was closer, and then that one, basically the

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orthodonist left and all the patients went
had to go to a different practice that

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was slightly farther away. It still
wasn't like it as far as the first

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one, so that was a step
up. But this place they don't have.

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They don't have appointments on Fridays,
which all of the no school days

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that my kids have are always on
a Friday. They don't. They have

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a few late afternoon appointments, so
you can, if you're lucky, you

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might be able to get one that's
after school. But then the other day

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they sent me a postcard that my
kid needed to come in, so I

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called up. The whole entire practice
is closed down for the week in what

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August, like when everyone needs to
try to fit in appointments before school starts

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and all of their patients are kids. If there's an orthodonis, like why

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why why why aren't you closed?
If you all need a vacation, take

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it in September, Like why do
you want to take it in August?

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Anyway? Yeah, I just thought
that was so dumb, Like, come

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on, guys, think a little
bit. Wow, that is Have you

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found the same thing, Nicole?
Um? Yeah, Orthodonis to the worst

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a barrel? Yeah, really do. And it's like, why do we

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have to come in every second or
third week? Like it's just I get

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that the bases have to be adjusted, but um, and it's the worst

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time as possible, and of course, you know, always that window after

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school has always taken so, um, you know, then our kids end

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up missing out in school. Yeah, and uh, you know, I

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think we had a conversation about this
in the past about you know, wishing

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for an orthodonis that kind of was
like in a van that would just pull

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up into the school parking lot.
Actually have one of it's unfortunately not one

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that we can use, but yes, they do that bus. I mean,

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like, how amazing is that,
you know to because the orthodonis literally

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are the worst. They They're hours
are horrible. Um, we really school

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should contract with somebody to just like
come into the nurse's office once a week

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and just take all your kids that
are in the school. Yeah, tighten

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up the races and let them go. Yeah. But I think the doctor

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that we've had that I've in terms
of hours, that I've loved the most

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was our husband, Christmas pediatrician.
Now and of course two women doctors run

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the practice, so they have these
amazing hours because they themselves are parents and

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females and understand that it's mostly the
moms that are bringing in the kids and

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you know, have these hours that
suit you know, family life, like

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they're open on Sundays and they're open, you know, really early in the

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morning, starting at seven am,
and then they have nights where they're open

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until like nine pm. So it's
amazing. And they have you know,

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the two doctors, and they have
all these nurse practitioners, so if you

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can't get into your doctor, you're
going to see a nurse practitioners, so

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you can pretty much get in the
same day that you call. And then

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you know, they have the whole
online service too. Yeah, Christians aged

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out of them now, but yeah, see they were a great practice in

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terms of timing, but for ourselves, what I find helpful now is just

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the online Yeah, yeah, I
love it. I use them all the

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time. You know this um flu
that I excuse me as I cough that

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I've been trying to get over.
It was so handy, um to just

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to be able to call and get
some some medicine sent to the pharmacy and

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wow, yeah, I may have
to try that. It's worth I mean

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our insurance. They take our insurance, but even the cash pay if you

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don't have insurance is totally reasonable for
the service. It's amazing. I mean

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you save hours of your life.
Yeah, you know, waiting care exactly.

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Oh yeah, our insurance company keeps
sending us information about that, like

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urging us to do it. So
one of these days I'm going to have

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something that's going to be appropriate for
that, and yeah, maybe I'll already

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do Well. That's the ultimate flexibility, isn't it to just be able to

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talk to your phone and you know
somebody's are always there, right, yeah,

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or online and yeah, all right, Well maybe that's going to be

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the answer eventually, and you'll actually
go to somebody's office. If only they

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could tighten braces your phone. Can
you imagine that with the kids. Maybe

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they teach kids how to do it, and then you go on the smartphone

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with your orthodonis and they say no, turn a little bit to the right,

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to the right. Sounds good.
That would be awesome. That's it

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for today's Sickness and Health Chat.
Tune in tomorrow for another take on this

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theme. We're always interested in what
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