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Margaret Bickmore <[log in to unmask]>
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Clarifying here, then we can drop the subject as per Kathleen's request :-) --

There is a new, recently changed after-hours recording at the Sears & sons
pediatric practice which refers mothers *twice* to askdrsears.com before there is
an opportunity to leave a message.  The recording also gives an emergency number
to page the doctors, and I hear secondhand that they are excellent about
responding to it at all hours.

Any curious ones could call after hours and listen to the recording.  The number
is available through the usual means.

Margaret
LLLL in Longmont, Colorado

> Kate reported about Dr. Sears:
>
> > Apparently he is currently referring his patients to
> > his website now when they call after hours.  Sure, a
> > lot of basic questions could be answered by his site,
> > but if you were a worried parent at 2 AM, is that what
> > you'd want to hear while you were waiting to page him?
> > Presumably you hired him as a pedy because you trust
> > him.
> >
> Kate, are you saying that Dr. Sears (or one of his associates) no longer will
> talk to parents at 2:00 in the morning, or after hours -- simply refers
> people to the website?  It sounds as though this is what you are saying.
> Have you called the office after hours and is this the message you have
> gotten, or did someone tell you that?  I can't imagine there is any physician
> who doesn't take call at night and only refers people to a website.  I CAN
> imagine that after hours there may be a reference to "and while you are
> waiting for us to get back to you, which we will do as soon as possible, you
> might want to take a look at the website which may answer some of your
> questions....."
>
> Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
> Administrative & Program Director
> Lactation Education Consultants
> Wheaton, Illinois


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