personal gripe about new doctor

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my daughter has been very ill recently. Because of the failure of her previous doctor to diagnose, I was given the choice of a NEW doctor. Very new. She just recently received her license as an MD. (June) Please understand that I had no choice in who would see my daughter. The facility has several doctors, but only one was taking new patients.

My gripe? This new doctor is questioning the judgment of a 25 year veteran doctor who specializes in Internal medicine and nephrology. who treated my daughter for the 4 days she was in the hospital in a larger city. The two of them are literally arguing over whether my daughter had mono. One simple test was done here in our local ER and showed positive for mono, while another more in depth test showed that my daughter did NOT have mono. I asked the specialist to fax a copy of the test results to my daughters primary care physician, which they did.

Tomorrow we visit the NEW doctor and I am going to ask her if she has received the fax from the specialist. The fax will indeed verify that my daughter in fact did NOT have mono. When I spoke to the new primary care physican on our last visit and told her that my daughter did NOT have mono, she rolled her eyes and stated that the specialist doesn't know what he is saying????? Red flag here anyone?

I just need some advice on how to pursue this issue. The specialist wants to keep close watch on my daughter while the primary care physician is doing everything in her power to put him down and dismiss him as "not knowing what he is talking about". Any advice? Thanks :)

Specializes in FP, immunizations, LTC, psych.

I can see both sides- just to play devil's advocate. There's a balance between experience and new knowledge and technology. Second, and possibly third, opinions would be a good idea.

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