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Here is my beef with all of the U clinics: 1) they...

Here is my beef with all of the U clinics: 1) they don't know you. If I want to call the doctor's office, I call a call center and they put me in touch with a message person that gives a message to the doctor's office and then half a day later they get the message and call you back. I am used to a clinic where the staff knows you and you know them. If you want to call the nurse you know at your family physician, you can call her and get info.
2) My really big beef started with my son. He had been sick close to 10 days with cold like symptoms and a fever. I can tell the difference between a cold and something more so we took him in. They said it was a cold and said at 10-12 days he will be better. Today at day 18 he is still sick, his fever is back (it had calmed down between then) and he is coughing so hard he is throwing up. I called the doctor with the above mentioned method and 4 hours later I got a call back. Nice enough it was the doctor. I told him the fever was back and my son had the same symptoms and I would like him to please call in an antibiotic. He refused and said that is not good practice. He would have to see my son again and he thinks it is just a cold. So he wanted me to go in and pay another $100+ bill to tell me it is a cold and not give an antibiotic. My son hasn't had one in 2 years which I told the doc. I'm not a person who just wants to pump my child full of medicine. This isn't the first time either. It seems the U had a vendetta against prescribing anti-biotics. I was sick, went to the U, no antibiotic. When I didn't get better in several more days, I went elsewhere, got an anti-biotic, was better in 24-48 hours.

Moral: if you need something simple like an antibiotic do not go here. If you need specialists, the U had several great departments. Just not impressed with their family medicine.

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