Friday, May 20, 2005

March 17th - first visit to a doctor

St Mary's hospital finally called after four days. A doctor by name Dr Singwi was assigned to Vasavi and the appointment was today around 1030AM.
Did quite a research on good OB/GYN. Thanks to a post by Lina Stavrakis in babycenter.com, I decided to call Dr Nguyen as I could not get appointment with my first choice Dr Lachapalle. Got the appointment with Dr Nguyen on April 1st. Dr Nguyen asked to get a referral letter so, we have decided to see Dr Singwi.
It was snowing lightly and had bit tough time to locate the general medicine department at St Mary's. Found it and had to wait for couple of minutes as Dr Singwi was attending to some emergency. Having heard lot of bad things about hospitals, we were plesantly surprised the way St Mary's worked. They assigned us two great nurses and gave list of tests to be done at the hospital itself.
Finally around 1115AM, Dr Singwi called us. He was very young but he sure sounded like good. He asked Vasavi all kinds of very good questions and health history and both of us very impressed. BUT he said he is leaving in another three months and someone else in St Mary's will look after Vasavi. We almost decided to stick with Dr Singwi and ditch Dr Nguyen but his leaving in three months made us to change our minds. Its not good to start all again with a new doctor and that too friends said lady GYN would be more comfortable. Another factor was Dr Singwi was not GYN but a general practitioner.
So, we asked him for the referral and told him that we want to see Dr Nguyen. He was very much okay with it and gave the referral.
One great thing he did was to prescribe Diclectin for nausea. This medicine was simply great. Had it not been for Diclectin we would have scared out of our wits.
Thank you Diclectin!!

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