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| - I signed up just to post this review. Hope it helps. I am a recently retired physician, practiced for 30 years. My daughter has been going to Dr Padrez since she was born 16 years ago. The experience with him has been great. Always able to fit us in, etc... So for non sick kids, or sore throats etc, they are fine.
My daughter developed a illness at age 13 for which she needs to take immunosuppressive drugs. That puts her at risk for infections, some which are unusual. Last week she developed a cough with an associated fever. The fever was different for her, so I brought her in. The doctor saw her and thought an CXR was in order. There is no in house X-ray. We drove to the place nearest our house and after walking across the lot with an obviously sick kid, they said the machine was down. We went home and she slept the rest of the day. The next morning, went to X-ray place #2. Waited an hour and 40 mins. No triage. Got a call that afternoon from a different doc that my daughter had pneumonia and started her on once daily cephalosporin. That didn't seem correct to me since she is immunosuppressed, but I'm not a pediatrician. Fast forward one day and she is in Phoenix's children's ER sick as a dog. IV antibiotics, etc...Nasal swab came back for bug that was not covered by the antibiotic given. She received the correct antibiotic at Phoenix children's and got better over the next several days.
No in house X-ray or lab makes you drive your sick child all over town. Very poor antibiotic choice for immunosuppressed child with pneumonia.
I am never returning and would advise if your child is really sick, look elsewhere.
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