Pediatricians in Massachusetts, following guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics, are grilling children about their parents' habits, apparently as a matter of course.
Doc, what's up with snooping?
The paranoia over parents is so strong that the AAP encourages doctors to ignore “legal barriers and deference to parental involvement” and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get.
And that information doesn’t stay with the doctor, either.
You are always catching that one good article. When my three were very young we moved to Houston and the pediatrician didn't know me and I was very affronted when he questioned how my child had an accident.
Weird but I never thought about it after that...
Posted by: MotherPie at October 4, 2007 9:05 PM