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Subject: Re: What was your likes and dislikes going to a pediatrician

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Kim

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Date Posted: Monday, December 15, 2025, 08:42: am
In reply to: Mike 's message, "What was your likes and dislikes going to a pediatrician" on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 01:05: pm

Our pediatrician is a nurse practitioner who serves elementary school age youngsters in the community and beyond. She has the only clinic in the area and to see a real doctor for anyone else involves quite a commute. The last general practice doctor locally retired over 10 years ago. From the time I was a kid to when he left practice a temperature was always taken with a glass thermometer.

Temperatures are taken in a designated area of the waiting room in an area of the waiting room designated and is set up for that purpose because where a few patients can have a temperature taken at one time as it is more efficient to take the temperature of a few patients at one time. Although by default a temperature is taken orally (in the mouth) with a glass oral thermometer, a rectal temperature (in the rear end) is taken with a glass rectal thermometer. Those patients tend to be boys (really the vast majority are boys) because it is boys tend to have delays in intellectual and emotional development which put them at risk of having a mishap with a glass oral thermometer placed in the mouth. For a boy who has been designated to have a temperature taken in his rear end most always find it embarrassing especially in front of other youngsters.

Needless to say, a 8 year old boy that I have been left in my care on an informal basis has his temperature taken in his rear end both at the clinic and at home because out of caution that he is not capable of having a glass oral thermometer placed in his mouth without a mishap based on my experience in home schooling him. His dislikes of the nurse practitioner because she designated him to have his temperature taken in his rear end and with a glass rectal thermometer. Both she and I use the larger and thicker, 5 inch glass rectal thermometer which is right sized for boys that a 8 to 10 years old because she said that it allows for a deeper penetration and firmer contact, the lining of his rectal interior, and a tighter seal at the entry point (which is definitely true from my perspective while mounting it in his rear end at entry).

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