My family (5 y.o. & 2 y.o) just moved here from Chicago and after some recommendations from parents at my daughter's school, we chose Desert Valley Pediatrics. Well, last night my daughter came to me crying about her throat hurting. I looked in there and immediately saw some white sores on the roof of her mouth, her tonsils, and the back of her cheeks. She was acting fine, so I decided to wait until this morning to get her seen by a doctor.
My husband made an appointment and the ease of scheduling the appt was fine- we arrived 30 minutes early to fill out paperwork as instructed and that was all fine- the staff at the front desk were nice and polite and helpful. We didn't have to wait in the waiting room for very long- about 5 min or so. We got called back and one of the girls took her weight, temp, etc. That was the last pleasant part of our visit.
The nurse practitioner came in (I can't remember her name) and looked in her ears and mouth and said that she saw the sores but it looked ok. Then she had me look in my daughters throat and asked if it looked worse than yesterday, which it did. She then looked at my daughter's ears and listened to her chest. She then told me that there is a virus going around and that's what my daughter has and said she could return to school. She didn't even swab for strep! And what nurse or doctor sends a child with open sores in their mouth back to school? One cough and my daughter will have infected everything! She then said if she was even worse in a couple of days to come back. Here's a thought- why don't you do a more thorough examination so my daughter doesn't have to come back!! White sores in the throat is strep 101- why a swab wasn't done just to be sure is beyond me.
I was so pissed that I took my daughter to FastMed on Litchfield Rd. In Goodyear for a second opinion, and the first thing they did was swab her throat and guess what? She has strep throat! Shocking!! Thank god I did not take that incompetent nurses' advice or I would've exposed my daughter's Kindergarten class!