Pediatric Nephrology is ineffective with their treatment of adolescents. This is truthful and serious. Listen up: The Nephrologist we had wallowed in negativity and an acquired bad taste for adolescents in general. He branded our child as medically non compliant based on grasping at straws and sought to coerce us to submit to punishment dialysis based on his oppressive assumptions that we werent filling prescriptions and therefore meds were not being taken: a non truth our pharmacist easily contradicted. He seemed intimated by our very strict watch over our child's health and our keeping of every record and our being in command and control of our child's medical care. We arrived at appointments with a huge folder with every record there is for our child. It appears our exercising our parental authority and endeavour to work with him instead of submitting to him really bothered him. The transplant advocate was also the Nephrologist's personal nurse. She would be at our appointments but stood in a corner like a frightened rabbit. We suspected she was only there to peek at our notes and cower to the will of her boss instead of representing us as a patient advocate. Our last effort with them ended when we caught successive lies in our child's medical review after appointments. We are willing to give people the benefit of the doubt but there is no doubt when you say one thing and completely contradict yourself a couple of paragraphs later - repeatedly. For having an adolescent and being responsible parents we were condemned and belittled. When we confronted him for his excessive contradictions he sent us a letter with a list of excuses as to why a kidney was being denied to our child.... Really? Just 8 months later God in His goodness has seen to it our child is transplanted at a stable and even God fearing hospital. Our child is mature and medically compliant because of the knowledge it means life or death. God as our witness, this is all true and we have records to prove it. We have since heard of the cult like mentality at Mayo clinic and we praise God He delivered us from that place. This has not been an attack on persons but a grave warning to parents.
