Ped GI in Utah?

Good luck Heather. You might want to check out the link in Laura’s intro on finding a ped GI. I don’t have it handy, but I’ll try to pull it and post the link for you. Hope the appointment goes well.

Hopefully you won’t need to switch. Often doctors that work in the same practice follow the same approach. Keep us posted. When’s the appointment?

heather—where in utah do you live? i originally tried to get sylvia in to primary children’s, but i couldn’t even get an appt made. we ended up going to boise and have been VERY happy with our ped gi. he actually has been on staff in the past at primary children’s. the only name at primary children’s i am familiar with is a dr. book.

heather, i lived in provo for 5 years when i was a little girl. my daughter is in provo right now at the MTC—–she is going to be going to oakland, cal. next month.

my grandfather was from utah, my grandmother was from idaho, but they raised their family in new jersey. my parents had lived in provo early in their marriage and went to the Y. i was born in louisiana, moved to new jersey when my parents divorced, then we moved to provo so my mom could go back to school. i can’t believe how much provo has changed since i used to live there. do you know provo very well?

at one time we lived in a house right by the city park with the swimming pool. i went to timpanogas grade school and used the under pass to get there—–does any of this sound familiar?

Hi Heather,

I’m sorry I didn’t see this sooner. My little guy has been so fussy lately it is hard to get to the computer.

How’d your appointment go?

We live in Blackfoot ID and have been seeing Molly O’Gorman and Debra Leaner there since the end of March. It took us forever to get in too.

The experience has been a bit disjointed and confusing for us. I hope that it goes better for you. My Ped said that Molly O’Gorman is a fine physician and a wonderful person.

They originally told me that is who my appointment was with but it turned out to be with Debra Leaner with Molly O’Gorman just poking her head in quickly and handing me perscriptions and Oking Debra Leaner’s game plan. They both seemed nice.

They didn’t say anything about another appointment and that was it. Then my pediatrician e-mailed Molly about how I should approach feeding with David because of all his problems. About a month later, I got a call from a nurse there seeing how we were doing with the advise they had given my doctor and wanting to make an appointment to follow up. The appointment they set up was a long way away.

It turned out that a follow up appointment should have been set up the first time we were there but no one said anything about it. Since we were having problems, I said that was OK but asked them just to check with Debra Leaner and see if she really wanted it to be that long before she saw him again. I got a call back asking if I could come down in two days. I discovered that they have days (or parts of days) that they don’t schedule appointments at all but they will fit people in on them if they want to see them. She set up another appointment with us for six weeks later scheduling it the same way.

So I guess what I’ve learned is make sure you ask the doctor before you leave when they want to see you again and if you want to get their attention or are having problems getting needed appointements, try having your pediatrician ask them about something. That seemed to spur a lot of activity for us.

One thing we’ve run into there as well is that they were not interested in scoping to find out what was really going on. They said they only did it if a baby was losing weight. With your baby struggling so much in that area, you might not have the same problem.

We finally decided to try Christine’s Dr. in Boise and he’s awsome. It is the first time I left a Ped. GI appointment feeling like we were finally on the right track for my little guy.

On a different note, I went to college in Provo too and my oldest son was there last fall for college and in the MTC in February. He’s in Louisianna now in a suburb of New Orleans.

I hope your appointment went well!

Kara